Magic Lantern Empire : Colonialism and Society in Germany /
In Short's historical narrative - peopled by fantasists and fabulists, by impresarios and amateur photographers, by ex-soldiers and rank-and-file socialists, by the luckless and bored along the margins of German society - colonialism emerges in metropolitan Germany through a dialectic of scienc...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : empire as world and idea : colonialism and society in Germany
- Estrangement : structures and limits of the colonial public sphere
- World of work, world of goods : propaganda and the formation of its object
- No place in the sun : the people's empire
- Carnival knowledge : enlightenment and distraction in the field of culture
- Ethnographic-fantastic : working-class readers at the colonial library
- The Hottentot elections : colonial politics, socialist politics
- Conclusion : magic lantern empire : reflections on colonialism and society.