Postcolonial Germany : Memories of Empire in a Decolonized Nation.
'Postcolonial Germany' traces the evolution of the collective memory of German colonialism, stretching from the loss of the colonies across the eras of national socialism, national division, and the Cold War to the present day. It shows to what extent this memory was intimately bound to ob...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Scholarship Online,
2014.
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| Series: | Oxford historical monographs.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 'Postcolonial Germany' traces the evolution of the collective memory of German colonialism, stretching from the loss of the colonies across the eras of national socialism, national division, and the Cold War to the present day. It shows to what extent this memory was intimately bound to objects of material culture in the former colonial metropole, such as tropical fruit sold atcolonial balls, state gifts handed to the former colonies at independence, and ethnological items kept as family heirlooms. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1306460581 9781306460583 9780191772634 0191772631 |