Gender And German Colonialism

Author : Chunjie Zhang,Elisabeth Krimmer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003821793

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Gender and German Colonialism by Chunjie Zhang,Elisabeth Krimmer Pdf

This book addresses the intersection between gender and colonialism primarily in German colonialism. Gender and German Colonialism is concerned with colonialism as a historical phenomenon and with the repercussions and transformations of the colonial era in contemporary racist and sexist discourses and practices relating to refugees, migrants, and people of non-European descent living in Europe. This volume contributes to the broader effort of decolonization, with particular attention to concepts of gender. Rather than focus on only one European empire, it discusses and compares multiple former colonial powers in context. In addition to German colonialism, some chapters focus on the role of gender in Dutch and Belgian colonialism in Indonesia, Africa, and the Americas. This volume will be of value to students and scholars interested in women’s and gender studies, social and cultural history, and imperial and colonial history.

Author : Katharina von Hammerstein,Barbara Kosta,Julie Shoults
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110572001

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Women Writing War by Katharina von Hammerstein,Barbara Kosta,Julie Shoults Pdf

Recent scholarship has broadened definitions of war and shifted from the narrow focus on battles and power struggles to include narratives of the homefront and private sphere. To expand scholarship on textual representations of war means to shed light on the multiple theaters of war, and on the many voices who contributed to, were affected by, and/or critiqued German war efforts. Engaged women writers and artists commented on their nations' imperial and colonial ambitions and the events of the tumultuous beginning of the twentieth century. In an interdisciplinary investigation, this volume explores select female-authored, German-language texts focusing on German colonial wars and World War I and the discourses that promoted or critiqued their premises. They examine how colonial conflicts contributed to a persistent atmosphere of Kriegsbegeisterung (war enthusiasm) that eventually culminated in the outbreak of World War I, or a Kriegskritik (criticism of war) that resisted it. The span from German colonialism to World War I brings these explosive periods into relief and challenges readers to think about the intersection of nationalism, violence and gender and about the historical continuities and disruptions that shape such events.

Author : Lora Wildenthal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Women
ISBN : 6612903813

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German Women for Empire, 1884-1945 by Lora Wildenthal Pdf

Analyses gender, sexuality, feminism, and class in the racial politics of formal German colonialism and postcolonial revanchism.

Author : Sara Friedrichsmeyer,Sara Lennox,Susanne Zantop
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Arts, German
ISBN : 047206682X

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The Imperialist Imagination by Sara Friedrichsmeyer,Sara Lennox,Susanne Zantop Pdf

The first anthology of essays to address colonial and postcolonial issues in German history, culture, and literature

Author : Michael Perraudin,Juergen Zimmerer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136977589

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German Colonialism and National Identity by Michael Perraudin,Juergen Zimmerer Pdf

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. .

Author : Katharina von Hammerstein,Barbara Kosta,Julie Shoults
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3110763850

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Women Writing War by Katharina von Hammerstein,Barbara Kosta,Julie Shoults Pdf

Author : Eric Ames,Marcia Klotz,Lora Wildenthal
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803251199

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Germany's Colonial Pasts by Eric Ames,Marcia Klotz,Lora Wildenthal Pdf

Germany’s Colonial Pasts is a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies. Inspired by Susanne Zantop’s landmark book Colonial Fantasies, and extending her analyses there, this volume offers new research by scholars from Europe, Africa, and the United States. It also commemorates Zantop’s distinguished life and career (1945–2001). Some essays in this volume focus on Germany’s formal colonial empire in Africa and the Pacific between 1884 and 1914, while others present material from earlier or later periods such as German emigration before 1884 and colonial discourse in German-ruled Polish lands. Several essays examine Germany’s postcolonial era, a complex period that includes the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany with its renewed colonial obsessions, and the post-1945 era. Particular areas of emphasis include the relationship of anti-Semitism to colonial racism; respectability, sexuality, and cultural hierarchies in the formal empire; Nazi representations of colonialism; and contemporary perceptions of race. The volume’s disciplinary reach extends to musicology, religious studies, film, and tourism studies as well as literary analysis and history. These essays demonstrate why modern Germany must confront its colonial and postcolonial pasts, and how those pasts continue to shape the German cultural imagination.

Author : Ulrike Lindner,Dörte Lerp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350056336

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New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire by Ulrike Lindner,Dörte Lerp Pdf

New Perspectives on the History of Gender and Empire, an open access book, extends our understanding of the gendered workings of empires, colonialism and imperialism, taking up recent impulses from gender history, new imperial history and global history. The authors apply new theoretical and methodological approaches to historical case studies around the globe in order to redefine the complex relationship between gender and empire. The chapters deal not only with 'typical' colonial empires like the British Empire, but also with those less well-studied, such as the German, Russian, Italian and U.S. empires. They focus on various imperial formations, from colonies in Africa or Asia to settler colonial settings like Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, to imperial peripheries like the Dodecanese or the Black Sea Steppe. The book deals with key themes such as intimacy, sexuality and female education, as well as exploring new aspects like the complex marriage regimes some empires developed or the so-called 'servant debates'. It also presents several ways in which imperial formations were structured by gender and other categories like race, class, caste, sexuality, religion, and citizenship. Offering new reflections on the intimate and personal aspects of gender in imperial activities and relationships, this is an important volume for students and scholars of gender studies and imperial and colonial history. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Author : Jared Poley
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 3039113305

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Decolonization in Germany by Jared Poley Pdf

When Germany lost its colonial empire after the Great War, many Germans were unsure how to understand this transition. They were the first Europeans to experience complete colonial loss, an event which came as Germany also wrestled with wartime collapse and foreign occupation. In this book the author considers how Germans experienced this change from imperial power to postcolonial nation. This work examines what the loss of the colonies meant to Germans, and it analyzes how colonialist categories took on new meanings in Germany's «post-colonial» period. Poley explores a varied collection of materials that ranges from the stories of popular writer Hanns Heinz Ewers to the novels, essays, speeches, pamphlets, posters, and archival materials of nationalist groups in the occupied Rhineland to show how decolonization affected Germans. When the relationships between metropole and colony were suddenly severed, Germans were required to reassess many things: nation and empire, race and power, sexuality and gender, economics and culture.

Author : Nina Berman,Klaus Muehlhahn,Patrice Nganang
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472037278

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German Colonialism Revisited by Nina Berman,Klaus Muehlhahn,Patrice Nganang Pdf

The first collection of interdisciplinary and comparative studies focusing on diverse interactions among African, Asian, and Oceanic peoples and German colonizers

Author : Arthur J. Knoll,Hermann J. Hiery
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780761839002

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The German Colonial Experience by Arthur J. Knoll,Hermann J. Hiery Pdf

The German Colonial Experience provides readers with an understanding of how the Germans gained, explored, pacified, ruled, and exploited their colonies prior to their loss in World War I. Knoll and Hiery show how Africans, Chinese, and Pacific Islanders reacted to German rule, how the Germans ran the daily affairs of government, their vision for the colonized peoples, and how the colonizers and the colonized perceived one another. In other words, how did German colonial rule actually work? This book intensely scrutinizes colonial documents, most of them in German script, from archives not only in Germany, but also from places such as Australia, New Guinea, and Samoa. Many of these documents have never previously been published, even in the original German.

Author : Lorena Rizzo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783905758498

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Gender and Colonialism by Lorena Rizzo Pdf

This book deals with colonialism on a Namibian periphery and considers both the German colonial period as well as South African rule in the country. The marginality of the Kaoko region within this colonial topography of power is analysed as a dynamic and fractured feature where power relations and constellations remained highly contested. The dynamics of gender within a regional society constituted of men and women, African and European, receive special attention within frameworks engaging with colonial photography, oral histories and gendered visions.

Author : Sean Andrew Wempe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190907211

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Revenants of the German Empire by Sean Andrew Wempe Pdf

"Revenants of a Fallen Empire reveals the various ways in which Colonial Germans attempted to cope with the loss of the German colonies after the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. These Kolonialdeutsche (Colonial Germans) had invested substantial time and money in German imperialism. German men and women from the former African colonies exploited any opportunities they could to recover, renovate and market their understandings of German and European colonial aims in order to reestablish themselves as "experts" and "fellow civilizers" in European and American discourses on nationalism and imperialism. Colonial officials, settlers, and colonial lobbies made use of the League of Nations framework to influence diplomatic flashpoints including the Naturalization Controversy in South African-administered Southwest Africa, the Locarno Conference, and German participation in the Permanent Mandates Commission from 1927-1933. Sean Wempe revises standard historical portrayals of the League of Nations' form of international governance, German participation in the League, the role of interest groups in international organizations and diplomacy, and liberal imperialism. In analyzing Colonial German investment and participation in interwar liberal internationalism, the project also challenges the idea of a direct continuity between Germany's colonial period and the Nazi era"--

Author : Daniel J. Walther
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781782385929

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Sex and Control by Daniel J. Walther Pdf

In responding to the perceived threat posed by venereal diseases in Germany’s colonies, doctors took a biopolitical approach that employed medical and bourgeois discourses of modernization, health, productivity, and morality. Their goal was to change the behavior of targeted groups, or at least to isolate infected individuals from the healthy population. However, the Africans, Pacific Islanders, and Asians they administered to were not passive recipients of these strategies. Rather, their behavior strongly influenced the efficacy and nature of these public health measures. While an apparent degree of compliance was achieved, over time physicians increasingly relied on disciplinary measures beyond what was possible in Germany in order to enforce their policies. Ultimately, through their discourses and actions they contributed to the justification for and the maintenance of German colonialism.

Author : Joyce Goodman,Jane Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134981618

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Gender, Colonialism and Education by Joyce Goodman,Jane Martin Pdf

An examination of the ways in which gender intersects with informal and formal education in England, Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, USA and the Netherlands. The book looks at various issues including: citizenship; authority; colonialism and education; and the construction of national identities.