Format:
Online-Ressource (xxviii, 640 p)
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ill. (some col.), maps
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0226772438
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0226772411
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9780226772417
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9780226772431
Series Statement:
Chicago studies in practices of meaning
Content:
Germany's overseas colonial empire was relatively short lived, lasting from 1884 to 1918. During this period, dramatically different policies were enacted in the colonies: in Southwest Africa, German troops carried out a brutal slaughter of the Herero people; in Samoa, authorities pursued a paternalistic defense of native culture; in Qingdao, China, policy veered between harsh racism and cultural exchange.Why did the same colonizing power act in such differing ways? In The Devil's Handwriting, George Steinmetz tackles this question through a brilliant cross-cultural analysis of German colonial
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-603) and index
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Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 - Introduction: Ethnography and the Colonial State; PART ONE: SOUTHWEST AFRICA; Chapter 2 - "A World Composed almost Entirely of Contradictions": Southwest Africans in German Eyes, before Colonialism; Chapter 3 - From Native Policy to Genocide to Eugenics: German Southwest Africa; PART TWO: SAMOA; Chapter 4 - "A Foreign Race That All Travelers Have Agreed to be the Most Engaging": The Creation of the Samoan Noble Savage, by Way of Tahiti
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Chapter 5 - "The Spirit of the German Nation at Work in the Antipodes": German Colonialism in Samoa, 1900-1914PART THREE: CHINA; Chapter 6 - The Foreign Devil's Handwriting: German Views of China before "Kiautschou"; Chapter 7 - A Pact with the (Foreign) Devil: Qingdao as a Colony; Chapter 8 - Conclusion: Colonial Afterlives; Appendix 1: A Note on Sources and Procedures; Appendix 2: Head Administrators of German Southwest Africa, Samoa, and Kiaochow; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226772417
Additional Edition:
Print version The Devil's Handwriting : Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa
Language:
English
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