Savage worlds : German encounters abroad, 1798-1914 /: German encounters abroad, 1798-1914. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Matthew Fitzpatrick and Peter Monteath.
• Editors: Fitzpatrick, Matthew P; Monteath, Peter
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (262 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 323.343; Diplomatic relations; German colonies; Colonies -- Administration; Germany -- Colonies -- History; Germany -- Colonies -- Administration -- History; Germany -- Foreign relations; Germany; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526123411; 1526123428; 9781526123428
• Related ISBNs: 152612341X; 9781526123428; 9781526123404
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print record.
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