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Germany and the Black diaspora : points of contact, 1250-1914 /

"The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature--not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much later than other European na...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Honeck, Mischa, 1976- (Editor), Klimke, Martin (Editor), Kuhlmann-Smirnov, Anne (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Series:Studies in German history ; volume 15.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Saints and slaves, Moors and Hessians. The Calenburg altarpiece : Black African christians in Renaissance Germany / Paul H.D. Kaplan
  • The Black diaspora in Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with special reference to German-speaking areas / Kate Lowe
  • Ambiguous duty : Black servants at German ancien régime courts / Anne Kuhlmann
  • Real and imagined Africans in baroque court divertissements / Rashid-S. Pegah
  • From American slaves to Hessian subjects : silenced Black narratives of the American revolution / Maria I. Diedrich
  • From enlightenment to empire. The German reception of African American writers in the long nineteenth century / Heike Paul
  • "On the brain of the Negro" : race, abolitionism, and Friedrich Tiedemann's scientific discourse on the African diaspora / Jeannette Eileen Jones
  • Liberating sojourns? African American travelers in mid-nineteenth-century Germany / Mischa Honeck
  • Global proletarians, uncle Toms, and native savages : popular German race science in the Emancipation era / Bradley Narancy
  • We shall make farmers of them yet : Tuskegee's uplift ideology in German Togoland / Kendahl L. Radcliffe
  • Education and migration : Cameroonian schoolchildren and apprentices in Germany, 1884-1914 / Robbie Aitken
  • Africans in Europe : new perspectives / Dirk Hoerder.