Colonial fantasies : conquest, family, and nation in precolonial Germany, 1770-1870 / / Susanne Zantop
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| Autore: |
Zantop Susanne <1945->
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| Titolo: |
Colonial fantasies : conquest, family, and nation in precolonial Germany, 1770-1870 / / Susanne Zantop
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| 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 | |
| Families 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 |
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