Format:
Online-Ressource (ix, 292 p)
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0822382113
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0822319608
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0822319683
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9780822382119
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9780822319603
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9780822319689
Series Statement:
Post-contemporary interventions
Content:
Traces German desires to discover, conquer and dominate 'new worlds' -- real and imagined-- expressed in stories and literature during the century preceding any actual German colonization
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-285) and index
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Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; I Armchair Conquistadors; or, The Quest for "New Germany"; 1 Tiranos animales o alemanes: Germans and the "Conquest"; 2 A Conquest of the Intellect; II Colonizing Theory: Gender, Race, and the Search for a National Identity; 3 Gendering the "Conquest"; 4 Racializing the Colony; 5 Patagons and Germans; III Colonial Families; or, Displacing the Colonizers; 6 Fathers and Sons: Donnerstag and Freitag, Campe and Krusoe; 7 Husbands and Wives: Colonialism Domesticated; 8 Betrothal and Divorce; or, Revolution in the House
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IV Virgin Islands, Teuton Conquerors9 The German Columbus; 10 The Second Discovery; 11 Colonial Fantasies Revisited; Epilogue: Vitzliputzli's Revenge; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822319603
Additional Edition:
Print version Colonial Fantasies : Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870
Language:
English
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