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200 14$aThe devil's handwriting$b[electronic resource] $eprecoloniality and the German colonial state in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa /$fGeorge Steinmetz
210   $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2007
215   $a1 online resource (677 p.)
225 1 $aChicago studies in practices of meaning
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [527]-603) and index.
327   $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tChapter 1. Introduction: Ethnography and the Colonial State -- $tChapter 2. "A World Composed almost Entirely of Contradictions": Southwest Africans in German Eyes, before Colonialism -- $tChapter 3. From Native Policy to Genocide to Eugenics: German Southwest Africa -- $tChapter 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 -- $tChapter 5. "The Spirit of the German Nation at Work in the Antipodes": German Colonialism in Samoa, 1900-1914 -- $tChapter 6. The Foreign Devil's Handwriting: German Views of China before "Kiautschou" -- $tChapter 7. A Pact with the (Foreign) Devil: Qingdao as a Colony -- $tChapter 8. Conclusion: Colonial Afterlives -- $tAppendix 1: A Note on Sources and Procedures -- $tAppendix 2: Head Administrators of German Southwest Africa, Samoa, and Kiaochow -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex
330   $aGermany'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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607   $aQingdao (China)$xHistory
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607   $aChina$xForeign relations$zGermany
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