The devil's handwriting : precoloniality and the German colonial state in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa /

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 paternal...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Steinmetz, George, 1957-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Series:Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
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