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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Steinmetz George <1957->"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"The devil's handwriting [[electronic resource] ] : precoloniality and the German colonial state in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa / / George Steinmetz"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-281-96655-X"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-226-77244-6"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786611966553"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (677 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Chicago studies in practices of meaning"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"325/.343"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Imperialism"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Germany Colonies History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Germany Foreign relations 1888-1918"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Germany Colonies Race relations"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Qingdao (China) History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Germany Foreign relations China"]
[{"$nulls":4},"China Foreign relations Germany"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Samoa History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Namibia History 1884-1915"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-603) and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"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, "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Samoa, and Kiaochow -- Bibliography -- Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","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"]