03869nam 22007334a 450 991045411150332120200520144314.01-281-96655-X0-226-77244-6978661196655310.7208/9780226772448(CKB)1000000000578923(EBL)408510(OCoLC)476229423(SSID)ssj0000138162(PQKBManifestationID)11146086(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000138162(PQKBWorkID)10100778(PQKB)10809429(MiAaPQ)EBC408510(DE-B1597)524905(OCoLC)1135597655(DE-B1597)9780226772448(Au-PeEL)EBL408510(CaPaEBR)ebr10265899(CaONFJC)MIL196655(EXLCZ)99100000000057892320060613d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe devil's handwriting[electronic resource] precoloniality and the German colonial state in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa /George SteinmetzChicago University of Chicago Pressc20071 online resource (677 p.)Chicago studies in practices of meaningDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-77243-8 0-226-77241-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-603) and index.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 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 -- IndexGermany'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 crossChicago studies in practices of meaning.ImperialismGermanyColoniesHistoryGermanyForeign relations1888-1918GermanyColoniesRace relationsQingdao (China)HistoryGermanyForeign relationsChinaChinaForeign relationsGermanySamoaHistoryNamibiaHistory1884-1915Electronic books.Imperialism.325/.343Steinmetz George1957-270222MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454111503321The devil's handwriting2198912UNINA