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List of illustrations / 000
Preface / 000
Acknowledgments / 000
Abbreviations / 000
Chapter 1 Introduction: Ethnography and the Colonial State / 000
Three Colonies / 000
Making Sense of Colonial Variations / 000
The Specificity of the Colonial State / 000
Precolonial Mimicry and the Central Role of Native Policy / 000
Toward an Explanation: The Colonial State as a Social Field / 000
Symbolic and Imaginary Identifications / 000
Resistance, Collaboration, and Inflections of Native Policy by Its Addressees / 000
Imperial Germany and the German Empire / 000
Part One: South West Africa
Chapter 2 ¿A World Composed almost Entirely of Contradictions¿: Southwest Africans in German Eyes, before Colonialism / 000
Precolonial and Protocolonial Imagery of Southwest Africans / 000
The Khoikhoi / 000
The Rehoboth Basters: Pure Intermediacy / 000
Images of the Ovaherero: A Radically Simplified Ethnographic Discourse / 000
Toward Colonialism / 000
Chapter 3 From Native Policy to Genocide to Eugenics: German Southwest Africa / 000
Accessing the Inaccessible / 000
The Germans and the Witboois / 000
¿Rivers of Blood and Rivers of Money¿: Germans and the Ovaherero / 000
Collaboration and the Rule of Difference: The Reheboth Basters under German Rule / 000
Conclusion / 000
Part Two: Samoa
Chapter 4 ¿A Foreign Race That All Travelers Have Agreed to be the Most Engaging¿: The Creation of the Samoan Noble Savage, by Way of Tahiti / 000
The Idea of Polynesian Noble Savagery / 000
Europeans on Polynesia in the Wake of Wallis and Bougainville: The Tahitian Metonym / 000
Polynesia and Tahiti in German Eyes, 1770s¿1850 / 000
Nineteenth-Century Social Change in Polynesia and the Increasing Attractiveness of Samoa / 000
Nineteenth-Century Samoa: From Lapérouse to the Germans / 000
The Evolution of European and German Representations of Samoa / 000
Precolonial Ethnographic Discourse and Guidelines for a Future Native Policy / 000
Chapter 5 ¿The Genius of the German Nation at Work in the Antipodes¿: German Colonialism in Samoa, 1900¿1914 / 000
Salvage Colonialism / 000
The Sources of Native Policy in Samoa / 000
Class Distinction and Class Exaltation / 000
Conclusion: Resistance and the Limits on Colonial Native Policy / 000
Part Three: China
Chapter 6 The Foreign Devil¿s Handwriting: German Views of China before ¿Kiautschou¿ / 000
Europe¿s Cathay / 000
Sinophilia and Sinomania / 000
German Views of China in the Era of Sinomania / 000
The Rise of Sinophobia / 000
German Sinophobia / 000
En Route to Qingdao: Speaking of the Devil / 000
Multivocality in German Representations of China at the End of the Nineteenth Century / 000
Toward ¿German-China¿ / 000
Transition / 000
Chapter 7 A Pact with the (Foreign) Devil: Qingdao as a Colony / 000
Bumrush the Show: Germans in Colonial Kiaochow, 1897¿1905 / 000
Shaken, Not Stirred: Segregated Colonial Space and Radical Alterity during the First Phase of German Colonialism in Kiaochow, 1897¿1904 / 000
German Native Policy in Kiaochow, Compared / 000
Early Native Policy and the Haunting of Sinophobia by Sinophilia / 000
The Seminar for Oriental Languages and German Sinology as a Conduit for Sinophilia / 000
Rapprochement: The Second Phase of German Colonialism in Kiaochow, 1905¿14 / 000
Explaining the Shift in Native Policy / 000
Conclusion / 000
Chapter 8 Conclusion: Colonial Afterlives / 000
Appendix 1: A Note on Sources and Procedures / 000
Appendix 2: Head Administrators of German Southwest Africa, Samoa, and Kiaochow / 000
Bibliography / 000
Index / 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Germany -- Colonies -- History.
Germany -- Foreign relations -- 1888-1918.
Germany -- Colonies -- Race relations.
Qingdao (China) -- History.
Germany -- Foreign relations -- China.
China -- Foreign relations -- Germany.
Samoa -- History.
Namibia -- History -- 1885-1915.
Imperialism.