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The devil's handwriting : precoloniality and the German colonial state in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa
- Title
- The devil's handwriting : precoloniality and the German colonial state in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa / George Steinmetz.
- Author
- Steinmetz, George, 1957-
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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- Description
- xxviii, 640 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Chicago studies in practices of meaning
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-603) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 08-1430
- ISBN
- 9780226772417 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226772431 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226772411 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226772438 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006019664
- OCLC
- 70122557
- Author
- Steinmetz, George, 1957-
- Title
- The devil's handwriting : precoloniality and the German colonial state in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa / George Steinmetz.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Series
- Chicago studies in practices of meaning
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [527]-603) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 08-1430