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Autore |
Steinmetz George <1957-> |
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Titolo |
The devil's handwriting [[electronic resource] ] : precoloniality and the German colonial state in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa / / George Steinmetz |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-96655-X |
0-226-77244-6 |
9786611966553 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (677 p.) |
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Collana |
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Chicago studies in practices of meaning |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Imperialism |
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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-603) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Ethnography and the Colonial State -- 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 -- 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 -- Chapter 5. "The Spirit of the German Nation at Work in the Antipodes": German Colonialism in Samoa, 1900-1914 -- Chapter 6. The Foreign Devil's Handwriting: German Views of China before "Kiautschou" -- Chapter 7. A Pact with |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 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 |
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