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Autore |
Zantop Susanne <1945-> |
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Titolo |
Colonial fantasies : conquest, family, and nation in precolonial Germany, 1770-1870 / / Susanne Zantop |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Durham, N.C., : Duke University Press, 1997 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-90441-8 |
9786612904417 |
0-8223-8211-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 292 pages) |
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Collana |
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Post-contemporary interventions |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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German literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Nationalism - Germany - History |
German literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
National characteristics, German, in literature |
Imperialism - History - 19th century |
Military history in literature |
Nationalism in literature |
Colonies in literature |
Families in literature |
Germany Foreign relations 1789-1900 |
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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. [211]-285) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Armchair Conquistadors; or, The Quest for "New Germany": Tiranos animales o alemanes: Germans and the "Conquest" A Conquest of the Intellect -- Colonizing Theory: Gender, Race, and the Search for a National Identity: Gendering the "Conquest" Racializing the Colony. Patagons and Germans -- Colonial Families; or, Displacing the Colonizers: Fathers and Sons: Donnerstag and Freitag, Campe and Krusoe. Husbands and Wives: Colonialism Domesticated. Betrothal and Divorce; or, Revolution in the House -- Virgin Islands, Teuton Conquerors: The German Columbus. The Second Discovery. Colonial Fantasies Revisited. Epilogue: Vitzliputzli's Revenge. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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