| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 640 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Chicago studies in practices of meaning
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Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-603) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Germany -- Colonies -- History.
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Germany. |
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Colonies. |
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History. |
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Germany -- Foreign relations -- 1888-1918.
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International relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1888-1918 |
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Germany -- Colonies -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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Qingdao (China) -- History.
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Germany -- Foreign relations -- China.
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China. |
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China -- Foreign relations -- Germany.
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Samoa -- History.
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Samoa. |
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Namibia -- History -- 1884-1915.
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Namibia. |
| Chronological Term |
1884-1915 |
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Imperialism.
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Imperialism. |
| Chronological Term |
1884-1918 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Steinmetz, George, 1957- Devil's handwriting. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007 9780226772417 9780226772431 (DLC) 2006019664 (OCoLC)70122557 |
| ISBN |
9780226772448 (electronic book) |
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0226772446 (electronic book) |
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9780226772417 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226772431 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0226772411 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226772438 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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