| Series |
The Max Kade Research Institute series : Germans beyond Europe
Max Kade German-American Research Institute series. ^A595085
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| Contents |
Introduction : national fantasies -- German identity and the African Heimat -- "New worlds of vitality" : colonial aspirations and the German nation, 1848-1884 -- "Between Heimat and heathens" : religious chauvinism in southwest Africa -- "A blessing to itself and the motherland" : extolling empire in the age of imperial conquest -- "I have done all I can" : African resistance and the evolution of German colonial violence -- "My nearly white wife" : colonial citizenship and the racial boundaries of Germanness -- "A little bit of the devil in his body" : imperial masculinity and the ideal German (settler) -- Conclusion : after empire -- Heimat S̐uudwest and German identity. |
| Abstract |
"Examines the relationship between imperial Germany and its empire in southwest Africa (present-day Namibia), exploring how Africans confronted foreign rule and altered German national identity between 1842 and 1915"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-255) and index. |
| LCCN | 2022019036 |
| ISBN | 9780271092980 |
| ISBN | 027109298X |
