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Colonial geography : race and space in German East Africa, 1884-1905 / Matthew Unangst.

Author/creator Unangst, Matthew author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2022.
Descriptionxiii, 335 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)
Series German and European studies
German and European studies ; 47. ^A699803
Contents Introduction -- Geographies of East Africa in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- The Introduction of a Land-Based Approach to Colonization, 1884-1885 -- Inventing Hinterland: Historiography and Cultural Geography in the DOAG’s Takeover of the Indian Ocean Coast, 1886-1888 -- The Emin Pasha Expedition, New Forms of Political Mobilization, and Reimagining East African Space, 1888-1890 -- The Bushiri War and Anti-Arab Internationalism -- Rethinking the Spread of Kultur West -- Creating Familiar Landscapes: Heimatkunde and African Spatialities, 1893-1900 -- Biogeography and Resettlement for Kultur -- Conclusion.
Abstract "Colonial Geography charts changes in conceptions of the relationship between people and landscapes in mainland Tanzania during the German colonial period. In German minds, colonial development would depend on the relationship between East Africans and the landscape. Colonial Geography argues that the most important element in German imperialism was not its violence but its attempts to apply racial thinking to the mastery and control of space. Utilizing approaches drawn from critical geography, the book argues that the development of a representational space of empire had serious consequences for German colonialism and the population of East Africa. Colonial Geography shows how spatial thinking shaped ideas about race and empire in the period of New Imperialism."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Other formsIssued also in electronic format.
Issued in other formOnline version: Unangst, Matthew. Colonial geography. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2022 1487543417 9781487543419
Genre/formHistory.
ISBN9781487543402
ISBN1487543409

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