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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Steinmetz, George, 1957-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Series:	Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
Subjects:	Germany > Colonies > History. Germany > Foreign relations > 1888-1918. Germany > Colonies > Race relations. Qingdao (China) > History. Germany > Foreign relations > China. China > Foreign relations > Germany. Samoa > History. Namibia > History > 1884-1915. Imperialism.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: Ethnography and the colonial state
pt. I. Southwest Africa. "A world composed almost entirely of contradictions" : Southwest Africans in German eyes, before colonialism ; From native policy to genocide to eugenics : German Southwest Africa
pt. II. Samoa. "A foreign race that all travelers have agreed to be the most engaging" : the creation of the Samoan noble savage, by way of Tahiti ; "The spirit of the German nation at work in the Antipodes" : German colonialism in Samoa, 1900-1914
pt. III. China. The foreign devil's handwriting : German views of China before "Kiautschou" ; A pact with the (foreign) devil : Qingdao as a colony
Conclusion: Colonial afterlives.