Author: Evans LewinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Germany's Model Colony in Africa
Author: B. W. HodderThe Germans in Africa
Author: Evans LewinThe Cultural Legacy of German Colonial Rule
Author: Klaus MühlhahnPublisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
ISBN: 9783110523065
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This edited volume explores social, economic, political, and cultural practices generated by African, Asian, and Oceanic individuals and groups within the context and aftermath of German colonialism. The volume contributes to current debates on transnational and intercultural processes while highlighting the ways in which the colonial period is embedded in larger processes of globalization.
German Rule, African Subjects
Author: Jürgen ZimmererPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1789207509
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Although it lasted only thirty years, German colonial rule dramatically transformed South West Africa. The colonial government not only committed the first genocide of the twentieth century against the Herero and Nama, but in their efforts to establish a “model colony” and “racial state,” they brought about even more destructive and long-lasting consequences. In this now-classic study—available here for the first time in English—the author provides an indispensable account of Germany's colonial utopia in what is present-day Namibia, showing how the highly rationalized planning of Wilhelmine authorities ultimately failed even as it added to the profound immiseration of the African population.
German Colonialism and National Identity
Author: Michael PerraudinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136977589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
German colonialism is a thriving field of study. From North America to Japan, within Germany, Austria and Switzerland, scholars are increasingly applying post-colonial questions and methods to the study of Germany and its culture. However, no introduction on this emerging field of study has combined political and cultural approaches, the study of literature and art, and the examination of both metropolitan and local discourses and memories. This book will fill that gap and offer a broad prelude, of interest to any scholar and student of German history and culture as well as of colonialism in general. It will be an indispensable tool for both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. .
The Acquisition of Africa (1870-1914)
Author: Mieke van der LindenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004321195
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Over recent decades, the responsibility for the past actions of the European colonial powers in relation to their former colonies has been subject to a lively debate. In this book, the question of the responsibility under international law of former colonial States is addressed. Such a legal responsibility would presuppose the violation of the international law that was applicable at the time of colonization. In the ‘Scramble for Africa’ during the Age of New Imperialism (1870-1914), European States and non-State actors mainly used cession and protectorate treaties to acquire territorial sovereignty (imperium) and property rights over land (dominium). The question is raised whether Europeans did or did not on a systematic scale breach these treaties in the context of the acquisition of territory and the expansion of empire, mainly through extending sovereignty rights and, subsequently, intervening in the internal affairs of African political entities.
The Germans and Africa, Their Aims on the Dark Continent and how They Acquired Their African Colonies
Author: Evans LewinGerman Colonial Wars and the Context of Military Violence
Author: Susanne KussPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674970632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Some historians have traced a line from Germany’s atrocities in its colonial wars to those committed by the Nazis during WWII. Susanne Kuss dismantles these claims, rejecting the notion that a distinctive military ethos or policy of genocide guided Germany’s conduct of operations in Africa and China, despite acts of unquestionable brutality.
The Germans and Africa, Their Aims on the Dark Continent and How They Acquired Their African Colonies (Classic Reprint)
Author: Evans LewinPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780428815714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Excerpt from The Germans and Africa, Their Aims on the Dark Continent and How They Acquired Their African Colonies After a survey of the diplomatic history of the period, the question naturally intrudes itself - Was Great Britain justified in the attitude she first adopted towards her new competitor? From the British point of view, certainly. Great Britain had been first in the field, and in the struggle of the nations the first-comer naturally expects, if his strength fail not, to retain the prizes within his grasp. But the fact must not be overlooked that there is much to be said from the German point of View, and although the game of grab can never be a polite and gentle exercise, no player has really the right to complain if another is first in the field and secures the best stakes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Alabama in Africa
Author: Andrew ZimmermanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691155860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This work recounts an expedition sent by Tuskegee Institute to transform the German colony of Togo, West Africa, into a cotton economy like the American South. This book reveals a transnational politics of labour, sexuality, and race invisible to earlier national, imperial, and comparative historical perspectives.