The devil's handwriting : precoloniality and the German colonial state in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa / George Steinmetz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinmetz, George, 1957-

Series:

Chicago studies in practices of meaning.

Chicago studies in practices of meaning

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism.

Germany--Colonies--History.

Germany.

Germany--Foreign relations--1888-1918.

Germany--Colonies--Race relations.

Qingdao (China)--History.

Qingdao (China).

Germany--Foreign relations--China.

China--Foreign relations--Germany.

China.

Samoa--History.

Samoa.

Namibia--History--1884-1915.

Namibia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (677 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction: Ethnography and the Colonial State

Chapter 2. "A World Composed almost Entirely of Contradictions": Southwest Africans in German Eyes, before Colonialism

Chapter 3. From Native Policy to Genocide to Eugenics: German Southwest Africa

Chapter 4. "A Foreign Race That All Travelers Have Agreed to be the Most Engaging": The Creation of the Samoan Noble Savage, by Way of Tahiti

Chapter 5. "The Spirit of the German Nation at Work in the Antipodes": German Colonialism in Samoa, 1900-1914

Chapter 6. The Foreign Devil's Handwriting: German Views of China before "Kiautschou"

Chapter 7. A Pact with the (Foreign) Devil: Qingdao as a Colony

Chapter 8. Conclusion: Colonial Afterlives

Appendix 1: A Note on Sources and Procedures

Appendix 2: Head Administrators of German Southwest Africa, Samoa, and Kiaochow

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-603) and index.

ISBN:

9786611966553

9781281966551

128196655X

9780226772448

0226772446

OCLC:

476229423