The devil's handwriting : precoloniality and the German colonial state in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa /

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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 paternal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Steinmetz, George, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Colección:Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
Temas:
1884-1918
Imperialism.
Impérialisme.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Diplomatic relations
German colonies
Imperialism
Race relations
Außenpolitik
Kolonialismus
Colonial administration.
Germany > Colonies > History.
Germany > Foreign relations > 1888-1918.
Germany > Colonies > Race relations.
Qingdao (China) > History.
Germany > Foreign relations > China.
China > Foreign relations > Germany.
Samoa > History.
Namibia > History > 1884-1915.
Allemagne > Relations extérieures > 1888-1918.
Allemagne > Relations extérieures > Chine.
Chine > Relations extérieures > Allemagne.
Namibie > Histoire > 1884-1915.
China
China > Qingdao
Germany
Namibia
Samoa
Deutschland
Samoainseln
Tsingtau
Westsamoa
Germany.
German colonies.
China.
Oceania.
Namibia.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Ethnography and the colonial state
  • pt. I. Southwest Africa. "A world composed almost entirely of contradictions" : Southwest Africans in German eyes, before colonialism ; From native policy to genocide to eugenics : German Southwest Africa
  • pt. II. Samoa. "A foreign race that all travelers have agreed to be the most engaging" : the creation of the Samoan noble savage, by way of Tahiti ; "The spirit of the German nation at work in the Antipodes" : German colonialism in Samoa, 1900-1914
  • pt. III. China. The foreign devil's handwriting : German views of China before "Kiautschou" ; A pact with the (foreign) devil : Qingdao as a colony
  • Conclusion: Colonial afterlives.

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