The devil's handwriting: precoloniality and the German colonial state in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa
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1. Verfasser: Steinmetz, George (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2007
Schriftenreihe:Chicago studies in practices of meaning
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-603) and index
Introduction: Ethnography and the colonial state -- pt. I. Southwest Africa. "A world composed almost entirely of contradictions" : Southwest Africans in German eyes, before colonialism ; From native policy to genocide to eugenics : German Southwest Africa -- pt. II. Samoa. "A foreign race that all travelers have agreed to be the most engaging" : the creation of the Samoan noble savage, by way of Tahiti ; "The spirit of the German nation at work in the Antipodes" : German colonialism in Samoa, 1900-1914 -- pt. III. China. The foreign devil's handwriting : German views of China before "Kiautschou" ; A pact with the (foreign) devil : Qingdao as a colony -- Conclusion: Colonial afterlives
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-cultural analysis of German colonia
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