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German colonialism and national identity
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German colonialism and national identity

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"Simultaneously published in the UK"--T.p. verso.

Contents

Introduction: German colonialism and national identity / Michael Perraudin and Jürgen Zimmerer
section A. Colonialism from before the empire
Imperialism, race, and genocide at the Paulskirche : origins, meanings, trajectories / Brian Vick
Time, identity, and colonialism in German travel writing on Africa, 1848-1914 / Tracey Dawe
Gray zones : on the inclusion of Poland in the study of German colonialism / Kristin Kopp
section B. Colonialism and popular utterance in the imperial phase
The war that scarcely was : the Berliner Morgenpost and the Boxer Uprising / Yixu Li
Boy's and girl's own empires : gender and the uses of the colonial world in Kaiserreich youth magazines / Jeffrey Bowersox
Picturing genocide in German consumer culture, 1904-1910 / David Ciarlo
The visual representation of Blackness during German imperialism around 1900 / Volker Langbehn
Colonialism and the simplification of language : Germany's kolonial-Deutsch experiment / Kenneth Orosz
section C. Colonialism and the end of empire
Fraternity, frenzy, and genocide in German war literature, 1906-1936 / Jörg Lehmann
Colonial heroes : German colonial identities in wartime, 1914-1918 / Michael Pesek
Crossing boundaries : German women in Africa, 1919-1933 / Britta Schilling
Abuses of German colonial history : the character of Carl Peters as weapon for volkisch and National-Socialist discourses : Anglophobia, anti-Semitism, and Aryanism / Constant Kpao Sar?
"Loyal Askari" and "Black rapist" : two images in the German discourse on national identity and their impact on the lives of Black people in Germany, 1918-1945 / Susann Lewerenz
section D. German colonialism in the era of decolonization
(Post-)colonial amnesia? : German debates on colonialism and decolonization in the post-war era / Monika Albrecht
Denkmalsturz : the German student movement and German colonialism / Ingo Cornils
Vergangenheitsbewältigung à la française : post-colonial memories of the Herero genocide and 17 October 1961 / Kathryn Jones
The persistence of fantasies : colonialism as melodrama on German television / Wolfgang Struck
section E. Local histories, memories, legacies
Communal memory events and the heritage of the victims : the persistence of the theme of genocide in Namibia / Reinhart Kössler
The genocide in German South-West Africa and the politics of commemoration : how (not) to come to terms with the past / Henning Melber
The struggle for genocidal exclusivity : the perception of the murder of the Namibian Herero (1904-08) in the age of a new international morality / Dominik J. Schaller
Narratives of a "model colony" : German Togoland in written and oral histories / Dennis Laumann
Suspended between worlds : the discipline of Germanistik in sub-Saharan Africa / Arndt Witte.

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