Colonial fantasies : conquest, family, and nation in precolonial Germany, 1770-1870 / / Susanne Zantop

• Autore: Zantop Susanne <1945-2001.>
• Pubblicazione: Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 292 pages)
• Disciplina: 830.9/358; 830.9358
• Soggetto topico: 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; Family in literature
• Soggetto geografico: Germany Foreign relations 1789-1900
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-285) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Colonial fantasies
• ISBN: 1-282-90441-8; 9786612904417; 0-8223-8211-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825288503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Post-contemporary interventions.