Tanja Bührer is Assistant Professor at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and teaches European and Global History.

“The editors of this stimulating volume should be congratulated for bringing together such a wide range of topics without a loss of focus. This book will surely serve as food for thought for anyone interested in this important topic.” • Comparativ“Provocative and original, these contributions challenge us to rethink the basic tenets of colonial governance. The editors avoid the pitfall common to numerous collections: atomized chapters that fail to relate to each other. Here, the contributions are strongly connected by the issue of local or indigenous co-operation in imperial conquest, administration and fiscal exaction.” • Martin Thomas, University of Exeter

• List of Figures and TablesIntroduction: Cooperation and Empire. Local Realities of Global Processes
Tanja Bührer, Flavio Eichmann, Stig Förster and Benedikt StuchteyPART I: CASE STUDIESChapter 1. 
Caciques: Indigenous Rulers and the Colonial Regime in Yucatán in the Sixteenth Century
Ute SchürenChapter 2. 
Connecting Worlds: Women as Intermediaries in the Portuguese Overseas Empire, 1500–1600Amélia Polónia and Rosa CapelãoChapter 3. 
Cooperation and Cultural Adaption: British Diplomats at the Court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, c. 1779–1815
Tanja BührerChapter 4. 
Local Cooperation in a Subversive Colony: Martinique 1802–09
Flavio EichmannChapter 5
. Uncle Toms and Kupapas: ‘Collaboration’ versus Alliance in a Nineteenth-Century New Zealand ContextVincent O’MalleyChapter 6
. ‘Collaboration’ or Sabotage? The Settlers in German Southwest Africa between Colonial State and Indigenous Polities
Matthias HäußlerChapter 7
. Chieftaincy as a Political Resource in the German Colony of Cameroon, 1884–1916
Ulrike SchaperChapter 8
. Cooperation at its Limits: Re-Reading the British Constitution in South Africa
Charles V. ReedChapter 9. 
Key Alliance? ‘Native Guards’ and European Administrators in Sub-Saharan Africa from a Comparative Perspective (1918–59)
Alexander KeeseChapter 10
. The Cooperation between the British and Faisal I of Iraq (1921–32): Evolution of a RomanceMyriam YakoubiChapter 11
. Collaborating on Unequal Terms: Cross-Cultural Co-operation and Educational Work in Colonial Sudan, 1934–56
Iris Seri-HerschPART II: CONCLUDING ESSAYSChapter 12. 
Indigenous Agents of Colonial Rule in Africa and India: Defining the Colonial State through its Secondary BureaucracyRalph A. AustenChapter 13
. Indigenous Cooperation: Foundation of Colonial Empires or New Historical Myth?Wolfgang ReinhardIndex

Tanja Bührer is Assistant Professor at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and teaches European and Global History.

“The editors of this stimulating volume should be congratulated for bringing together such a wide range of topics without a loss of focus. This book will surely serve as food for thought for anyone interested in this important topic.” • Comparativ“Provocative and original, these contributions challenge us to rethink the basic tenets of colonial governance. The editors avoid the pitfall common to numerous collections: atomized chapters that fail to relate to each other. Here, the contributions are strongly connected by the issue of local or indigenous co-operation in imperial conquest, administration and fiscal exaction.” • Martin Thomas, University of Exeter

• List of Figures and TablesIntroduction: Cooperation and Empire. Local Realities of Global Processes
Tanja Bührer, Flavio Eichmann, Stig Förster and Benedikt StuchteyPART I: CASE STUDIESChapter 1. 
Caciques: Indigenous Rulers and the Colonial Regime in Yucatán in the Sixteenth Century
Ute SchürenChapter 2. 
Connecting Worlds: Women as Intermediaries in the Portuguese Overseas Empire, 1500–1600Amélia Polónia and Rosa CapelãoChapter 3. 
Cooperation and Cultural Adaption: British Diplomats at the Court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, c. 1779–1815
Tanja BührerChapter 4. 
Local Cooperation in a Subversive Colony: Martinique 1802–09
Flavio EichmannChapter 5
. Uncle Toms and Kupapas: ‘Collaboration’ versus Alliance in a Nineteenth-Century New Zealand ContextVincent O’MalleyChapter 6
. ‘Collaboration’ or Sabotage? The Settlers in German Southwest Africa between Colonial State and Indigenous Polities
Matthias HäußlerChapter 7
. Chieftaincy as a Political Resource in the German Colony of Cameroon, 1884–1916
Ulrike SchaperChapter 8
. Cooperation at its Limits: Re-Reading the British Constitution in South Africa
Charles V. ReedChapter 9. 
Key Alliance? ‘Native Guards’ and European Administrators in Sub-Saharan Africa from a Comparative Perspective (1918–59)
Alexander KeeseChapter 10
. The Cooperation between the British and Faisal I of Iraq (1921–32): Evolution of a RomanceMyriam YakoubiChapter 11
. Collaborating on Unequal Terms: Cross-Cultural Co-operation and Educational Work in Colonial Sudan, 1934–56
Iris Seri-HerschPART II: CONCLUDING ESSAYSChapter 12. 
Indigenous Agents of Colonial Rule in Africa and India: Defining the Colonial State through its Secondary BureaucracyRalph A. AustenChapter 13
. Indigenous Cooperation: Foundation of Colonial Empires or New Historical Myth?Wolfgang ReinhardIndex

Tanja Bührer is Assistant Professor at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and teaches European and Global History.

“The editors of this stimulating volume should be congratulated for bringing together such a wide range of topics without a loss of focus. This book will surely serve as food for thought for anyone interested in this important topic.” • Comparativ“Provocative and original, these contributions challenge us to rethink the basic tenets of colonial governance. The editors avoid the pitfall common to numerous collections: atomized chapters that fail to relate to each other. Here, the contributions are strongly connected by the issue of local or indigenous co-operation in imperial conquest, administration and fiscal exaction.” • Martin Thomas, University of Exeter

• List of Figures and TablesIntroduction: Cooperation and Empire. Local Realities of Global Processes
Tanja Bührer, Flavio Eichmann, Stig Förster and Benedikt StuchteyPART I: CASE STUDIESChapter 1. 
Caciques: Indigenous Rulers and the Colonial Regime in Yucatán in the Sixteenth Century
Ute SchürenChapter 2. 
Connecting Worlds: Women as Intermediaries in the Portuguese Overseas Empire, 1500–1600Amélia Polónia and Rosa CapelãoChapter 3. 
Cooperation and Cultural Adaption: British Diplomats at the Court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, c. 1779–1815
Tanja BührerChapter 4. 
Local Cooperation in a Subversive Colony: Martinique 1802–09
Flavio EichmannChapter 5
. Uncle Toms and Kupapas: ‘Collaboration’ versus Alliance in a Nineteenth-Century New Zealand ContextVincent O’MalleyChapter 6
. ‘Collaboration’ or Sabotage? The Settlers in German Southwest Africa between Colonial State and Indigenous Polities
Matthias HäußlerChapter 7
. Chieftaincy as a Political Resource in the German Colony of Cameroon, 1884–1916
Ulrike SchaperChapter 8
. Cooperation at its Limits: Re-Reading the British Constitution in South Africa
Charles V. ReedChapter 9. 
Key Alliance? ‘Native Guards’ and European Administrators in Sub-Saharan Africa from a Comparative Perspective (1918–59)
Alexander KeeseChapter 10
. The Cooperation between the British and Faisal I of Iraq (1921–32): Evolution of a RomanceMyriam YakoubiChapter 11
. Collaborating on Unequal Terms: Cross-Cultural Co-operation and Educational Work in Colonial Sudan, 1934–56
Iris Seri-HerschPART II: CONCLUDING ESSAYSChapter 12. 
Indigenous Agents of Colonial Rule in Africa and India: Defining the Colonial State through its Secondary BureaucracyRalph A. AustenChapter 13
. Indigenous Cooperation: Foundation of Colonial Empires or New Historical Myth?Wolfgang ReinhardIndex