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Colonial Switzerland : rethinking colonialism from the margins
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Colonial Switzerland : rethinking colonialism from the margins

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1. On the Tropical Origins of the Alps : Science and the Colonial Imagination of Switzerland, 1700-1900 / Bernhard C. Schär
2. Race in the Making : Colonial Encounters, Body Measurements and the Global Dimensions of Swiss Racial Science, 1900-1950 / Pascal Germann
3. The Other's Colony : Switzerland and the Discovery of Côte d'Ivoire / Lukas Meier
4. Patriotic Bonds and the Danger of Estrangement : Swiss Networks in Colonial Southeast Asia (1850-1930) / Andreas Zangger
5. "Wonderland" Peru : Migration and the Making of an Andean Switzerland / Angela Sanders
6. Bollywood, Chicken Curry
and IT : The Public Spectacle of the Indian Exotic, and Postcolonial Anxieties in Switzerland / Rohit Jain
7. Becoming Imperial : A Swiss Woman's Shifting Identity in British Southern Africa / Ruramisai Charumbira
8. From "Native" Alpine Guides to Foreign "Sahibs" in the Himalayas : Swiss Identity Formation at the Moment of Decolonization / Patricia Purtschert
9. Overburdened White Men (and Women) : Ruptured Self-Images of Young Swiss in the "Third World" (1950s to 1970s) / Patricia Hongler and Marina Lienhard
10. The Other Side of Internationalism : Switzerland as Hub of Militant Anti-Colonialism (c. 1910-1920) / Harald Fischer-Tiné
11. "The Chinaman of old cannot be compared to the Chinaman of today" : Official Views of China and the Construction of Colonial Knowledge in Interwar Switzerland / Ariane Knüsel
12. Glimpses into the Hearts of Whiteness : Institutions of Intimacy and the Desirable National / Anne Lavanchy
Colonial Complicities and Hidden Imperial Entanglements : An Afterword / Shalini Randeria.

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