German Colonialism and National Identity (Routledge Studies in Modern European History)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 10
Introduction: German Colonialism and National Identity......Page 12
Part I Colonialism From Before the Empire......Page 18
1 Imperialism, Race, and Genocide at the Paulskirche: Origins, Meanings, Trajectories......Page 20
2 Time, Identity and Colonialism in German Travel Writing on Africa, 1848–1914......Page 32
3 Gray Zones: On the Inclusion of “Poland” in the Study of German Colonialism......Page 44
Part II Colonialism and Popular Utterance in the Imperial Phase......Page 54
4 The War That Scarcely Was: The Berliner Morgenpost and the Boxer Uprising......Page 56
5 Boy’s and Girl’s Own Empires: Gender and the Uses of the Colonial World in Kaiserreich Youth Magazines......Page 68
6 Picturing Genocide in German Consumer Culture, 1904–10......Page 80
7 The Visual Representation of Blackness During German Imperialism Around 1900......Page 101
8 Colonialism and the Simplification of Language: Germany’s Kolonial-Deutsch Experiment......Page 112
Part III Colonialism and the End of Empire......Page 124
9 Fraternity, Frenzy, and Genocide in German War Literature, 1906–36......Page 126
10 Colonial Heroes: German Colonial Identities in Wartime, 1914–18......Page 137
11 Crossing Boundaries: German Women in Africa, 1919–33......Page 151
12 Abuses of German Colonial History: The Character of Carl Peters as a Weapon for völkisch and National Socialist Discourses: Anglophobia, Anti-Semitism, Aryanism......Page 171
13 “Loyal Askari” and “Black Rapist”: Two Images in the German Discourse on National Identity and Their Impact on the Lives of Black People in Germany, 1918–45......Page 184
Part IV German Colonialism in the Era of Decolonization......Page 196
14 (Post-) Colonial Amnesia?: German Debates on Colonialism and Decolonization in the Post-War Era......Page 198
15 Denkmalsturz: The German Student Movement and German Colonialism......Page 208
16 Vergangenheitsbewältigung à la française: Post-Colonial Memories of the Herero Genocide and 17 October 1961......Page 224
17 The Persistence of Fantasies: Colonialism as Melodrama on German Television......Page 235
Part V Local Histories, Memories, Legacies......Page 244
18 Communal Memory Events and the Heritage of the Victims: The Persistence of the Theme of Genocide in Namibia......Page 246
19 The Genocide in “German South-West Africa” and the Politics of Commemoration: How (Not) to Come to Terms with the Past......Page 262
20 The Struggle for Genocidal Exclusivity: The Perception of the Murder of the Namibian Herero (1904–8) in the Age of a New International Morality......Page 276
21 Narratives of a “Model Colony”: German Togoland in Written and Oral Histories......Page 289
22 Suspended Between Worlds?: The Discipline of Germanistik in Sub-Saharan Africa......Page 303
Bibliography......Page 324
Index......Page 344