Germany's Colonial Pasts

Name: Germany's Colonial Pasts
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ISBN: 9780803248199

ISBN-10: 0803248199

ISBN-13: 9780803248199

Edition: 2005

Authors: Eric Ames, Marcia Klotz, Lora Wildenthal, Sander L. Gilman

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"Germany's Colonial Pasts" is a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies. Inspired by Susanne Zantop's landmark book "Colonial Fantasies", and extending her analyses there, this volume offers new research by scholars from Europe, Africa, and the United States. It also commemorates Zantop's distinguished life and career (1945-2001). Some essays in this volume focus on Germany's formal colonial empire in Africa and the Pacific between 1884 and 1914, while others present material from earlier or later periods such as German emigration before 1884 and colonial discourse in German-ruled Polish lands. Several essays examine Germany's postcolonial era, a complex period that…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 12/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 260
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.20" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction




Identifications of Self and Other


Colonialism and the Culture of Respectability



Inventing the Auslandsdeutsche: Emigration, Colonial Fantasy, and German National Identity, 1848-71



The Colonialist Beginnings of Comparative Musicology




Orders of Colonial Regulation: Sex and Violence


Race, Gender, and Sexuality in German Southwest Africa: Hans Grimm's Sudafrikanische Novellen



Constructing Racial Difference in Colonial Poland



Colonization and Modernization: The Legal Foundation of the Colonial Enterprise; A Case Study of German Colonization in Cameroon




Colonial Racism and Antisemitism


What Does German Colonialism Have to Do with National Socialism? A Conceptual Framework



The Weimar Republic: A Postcolonial State in a Still-Colonial World



Theology as a Vision for Colonialism: From Supersessionism to Dejudaization in German Protestantism




Nazi Visions of Africa


Race Power in Postcolonial Germany: The German Africa Show and the National Socialist State, 1935-40



Marching in Step: German Youth and Colonial Cinema




Colonial Legacies: The Racialized Self


Autobiographical Accounts of Kenyan-German Marriages: Reception and Context



Autobiographies of Blackness in Germany



Contributors


Index