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transcolonial en · ADJ

Etymology

From trans- + colonial.

Meanings

1. Involving several colonies; spanning multiple colonies or across multiple colonial borders.
   • As an undergraduate at the University of Alberta, my meditations on the transcolonial logic of the British Empire were sparked by a haunting fragment of Indian statuary on display in Cameron Library: the head of a bodhisattva, presented to the university, a plaque announced, by a British Army major, who had "traded it for rifles in the Kyber Pass." 1997, Katie Trumpener, Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire, Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
   • This existence of a transcolonial approach to the legal issues surrounding slavery needs further exploration, especially since it seems to have spread beyond the British possessions in North America: in 1804, the Vermont Supreme Court ... 2013, George Blaine Baker, Donald Fyson, Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Quebec and the Canadas, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 292:
   • In both cases, the seeming downfall of 'England' as the hegemonic power was given as the pretext for a new transcolonial model of the Empire. Kipling and the 'imperialist' camp resorted to this model to secure maximum support from the ... 2006, Kaori Nagai, Empire of Analogies: Kipling, India and Ireland:
   • […] century was held together increasingly by large transcolonial companies. These companies and corporations were often made up of partners who were socially and financially connected to one another through marriage relations and birth. 2012, K. Candlin, The Last Caribbean Frontier, 1795-1815, Springer, →ISBN:
   • ... best understood and interrogated on a regional, transcolonial level of generalization. This analysis is no less specific because it is based on vampire stories from Tanzania interpreted with vampire stories from Uganda […] 2000, Luise White, Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 122:
   • By this time white and white man pertained to an overt, transnational identity that was forming within and between British settler sites. At the transcolonial level, white spaces were organized and shored up outwardly through the sharing of restrictive immigration policies among (former) British colonies. 2010, Penelope Edmonds, Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities, UBC Press, →ISBN, page 230:
2. Between or beyond colonial boundaries.
   • The transcolonial frontier refers to a frontier that lay way beyond any white settlement, beyond the frontier. This type of frontier is represented by the example of the English traders who established a trading post at Port Natal in 1824, and by Coenraad de Buys, an Afrikaner who became the patriarch of a distinct mixed group which came to be known as the Griqua. 2004, Bill Nasson, Rob Siebörger, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (South Africa), Turning points in history, Ste

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