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Steinmetz George <1957->
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Titolo: |
The devil's handwriting : precoloniality and the German colonial state in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa / / George Steinmetz
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Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (677 p.) |
Disciplina: | 325/.343 |
Soggetto topico: | Imperialism |
Soggetto geografico: | Germany Colonies History |
Germany Foreign relations 1888-1918 | |
Germany Colonies Race relations | |
Qingdao (China) History | |
Germany Foreign relations China | |
China Foreign relations Germany | |
Samoa History | |
Namibia History 1884-1915 | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-603) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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, Samoa, and Kiaochow -- Bibliography -- Index |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The devil's handwriting ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-281-96655-X |
0-226-77244-6 | |
9786611966553 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910826146303321 |
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