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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction: Ethnography and the Colonial State | |
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| Three Colonies | |
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| Making Sense of Colonial Variations | |
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| The Specificity of the Colonial State | |
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| Precolonial Mimicry and the Central Role of Native Policy | |
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| Toward an Explanation: The Colonial State as Social field | |
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| Symbolic and Imaginary Identifications | |
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| Resistance, Collaboration, and Infections of Native Policy by Its Addressees | |
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| Imperial Germany and the German Empire | |
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| South West Africa | |
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| "A World Composed Almost Entirely of Contradictions": Southwest Africans in German Eyes, before Colonialism | |
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| Precolonial and Protocolonial Imagery of Southwest Africans | |
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| The Khoikhoi: The Path to Precolonial Mimicry | |
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| The Rehoboth Basters: Pure Intermediacy | |
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| The Ovaherero: A Radically Simplified Ethnographic Discourse | |
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| Toward Colonialism | |
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| From Native Policy to Genocide to Eugenics: German Southwest Africa | |
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| Accessing the Inaccessible | |
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| The Germans and the Witbooi People | |
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| "Rivers of Blood and Rivers of Money": Germans and Ovaherero | |
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| Collaboration and the Rule of Difference: The Reheboth Basters under German Rule | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Samoa | |
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| "A Foreign Race That All Travelers Have Agreed to be the Most Engaging": The Creation of the Samoan Noble savage, by way of Tahiti | |
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| The Idea of Polynesian Noble Savagery | |
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| Europeans on Polynesia in the Wake of Wallis and Bougainville: The Tahitian Metonym | |
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| Polynesia and Tahiti in German Eyes, 1770s-1850 | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Social Change in Polynesia and the Increasing Attractiveness of Samoa | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Samoa: From Lap�rouse to the Germans | |
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| The Evolution ofEuropean and German Representations of Samoa | |
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| Precolonial Guidelines for a Future Native Policy | |
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| "The Spirit of the German Nation at Work in the Antipodes": German Colonialism in Samoa, 1900-1914 | |
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| Salvage Colonialism | |
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| The Sources of Native Policy in Samoa | |
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| Class distinction and Class Exaltation | |
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| Conclusion: Resistance and the Limits on Colonial Native Policy | |
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| China | |
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| The Foreign Devil's Handwriting: German Views of China before "Kiautschou" | |
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| Europe's Cathay | |
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| Sinomania | |
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| German Views of China in the Era of Sinomania | |
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| The Rise of Sinophobia | |
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| German Sinophobia | |
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| En Route to Quingdao: Speaking of the Devil | |
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| Multivocality in German Representations of China at the End of the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Toward "German-China" | |
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| Transition | |
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| A Pact with the (Foreign) Devil: Qingdao as a Colony | |
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| Bumrush the Show: Germans in Colonial Kiaochow, 1897-1905 | |
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| Shaken, Not Stirred: Segregated Colonial Space and Radical Alterity During the First Phase of German Colonialism in Kiaochow, 1897-1904 | |
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| German Native Policy in Kiaochow, Compared | |
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| Early Native Policy and the Haunting of Sinophobia by Sinophilia | |
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| The Seminar for Oriental Languages and German Sinology as a Conduit for Sinophilia | |
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| Rapproachment: The Second Phase of German Colonialism in Kiaochow, 1905-14 | |
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| Explaining the Shift in Native Policy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion: Colonial Afterlives | |
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| A Note on Sources and Procedures | |
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| Head Administrators of German Southwest Africa, Samoa, and Kiaochow | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |