Savage Worlds examines frontier encounters between Germans and indigenous peoples in the age of high imperialism. It demonstrates the complexity of the colonial frontier and frontier zone encounters and poses the question of how far Germans were able to overcome their initial belief that, in leaving Europe, they were entering 'savage worlds'.
Savage Worlds examines frontier encounters between Germans and indigenous peoples in the age of high imperialism. It demonstrates the complexity of the colonial frontier and frontier zone encounters and poses the question of how far Germans were able to overcome their initial belief that, in leaving Europe, they were entering 'savage worlds'.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Peter Monteath is Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide. His books include POW: Australian Prisoners of War in Hitler's Reich and Escape Artist: The Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck. His research for this book took him to archives in Australia, New Zealand and Germany - and to 42nd Street.
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1. The savagery of empire - Matthew P. Fitzpatrick and Peter Monteath 2. 'No alternative to extermination': Germans and their 'savages' in Southern Brazil at the turn of the nineteenth century - Stefan Rinke 3. 'Far better than their reputation': the Tolai of East New Britain in the writings of Otto Finsch - Hilary Howes 4. The goddess and the beast: African-German encounters - Eva Bischoff 5. Wine into wineskins: the Neuendettelsau missionaries' encounter with language and myth in New Guinea - Daniel Midena 6. Signs of the savage in the skull? German investigations of Australian Aboriginal skeletal remains, c. 1860 - Antje Kühnast 7. 'Scientific tourism': colonialism in the photographs and letters of the young cosmopolitan Carl Heinrich Becker, 1900-02 - Ulf Morgenstern 8. Through a German lens: the Australian Aborigines and the question of difference - Judith Wilson 9. The savagery of America? Nineteenth-century German literature and indigenous representations - Nicole Perry 10. Incompetent masters, indolent natives, savage origins: the Philippines and its inhabitants in the travel accounts of Carl Semper (1869) and Fedor Jagor (1873) - Hidde van der Wall 11. Social Democrats and Germany's war in South-West Africa, 1904-07: the view of the socialist press - Andrew G. Bonnell Index
1. The savagery of empire - Matthew P. Fitzpatrick and Peter Monteath 2. 'No alternative to extermination': Germans and their 'savages' in Southern Brazil at the turn of the nineteenth century - Stefan Rinke 3. 'Far better than their reputation': the Tolai of East New Britain in the writings of Otto Finsch - Hilary Howes 4. The goddess and the beast: African-German encounters - Eva Bischoff 5. Wine into wineskins: the Neuendettelsau missionaries' encounter with language and myth in New Guinea - Daniel Midena 6. Signs of the savage in the skull? German investigations of Australian Aboriginal skeletal remains, c. 1860 - Antje Kühnast 7. 'Scientific tourism': colonialism in the photographs and letters of the young cosmopolitan Carl Heinrich Becker, 1900-02 - Ulf Morgenstern 8. Through a German lens: the Australian Aborigines and the question of difference - Judith Wilson 9. The savagery of America? Nineteenth-century German literature and indigenous representations - Nicole Perry 10. Incompetent masters, indolent natives, savage origins: the Philippines and its inhabitants in the travel accounts of Carl Semper (1869) and Fedor Jagor (1873) - Hidde van der Wall 11. Social Democrats and Germany's war in South-West Africa, 1904-07: the view of the socialist press - Andrew G. Bonnell Index
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