LEADER 03934nam 22007814a 450 001 9910958788203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786611966553 010 $a9781281966551 010 $a128196655X 010 $a9780226772448 010 $a0226772446 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226772448 035 $a(CKB)1000000000578923 035 $a(EBL)408510 035 $a(OCoLC)476229423 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000138162 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11146086 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000138162 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10100778 035 $a(PQKB)10809429 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408510 035 $a(DE-B1597)524905 035 $a(OCoLC)1135597655 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226772448 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408510 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265899 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL196655 035 $a(Perlego)1851336 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000578923 100 $a20060613d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe devil's handwriting $eprecoloniality and the German colonial state in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa /$fGeorge Steinmetz 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (677 p.) 225 1 $aChicago studies in practices of meaning 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780226772431 311 08$a0226772438 311 08$a9780226772417 311 08$a0226772411 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 $aGermany's overseas colonial empire was relatively short lived, lasting from 1884 to 1918. During this period, dramatically different policies were enacted in the colonies: in Southwest Africa, German troops carried out a brutal slaughter of the Herero people; in Samoa, authorities pursued a paternalistic defense of native culture; in Qingdao, China, policy veered between harsh racism and cultural exchange.Why did the same colonizing power act in such differing ways? In The Devil's Handwriting, George Steinmetz tackles this question through a brilliant cross 410 0$aChicago studies in practices of meaning. 606 $aImperialism 607 $aGermany$xColonies$xHistory 607 $aGermany$xForeign relations$y1888-1918 607 $aGermany$xColonies$xRace relations 607 $aQingdao (China)$xHistory 607 $aGermany$xForeign relations$zChina 607 $aChina$xForeign relations$zGermany 607 $aSamoa$xHistory 607 $aNamibia$xHistory$y1884-1915 615 0$aImperialism. 676 $a325/.343 700 $aSteinmetz$b George$f1957-$0270222 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910958788203321 996 $aThe devil's handwriting$94352104 997 $aUNINA