The devil's handwriting : precoloniality and the German colonial state in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa / George Steinmetz.
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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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. |
| Series: | Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.