Some resources on German imperial imaginaries of space/place in Africa (including print culture, children's toys, and gendered appeals)
(Originally posted elsewhere on 24 April 2024.)
Just organizing more notes. Some recent-ish books/texts on heyday of German Empire:
German Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies: Architecture, Art, Urbanism, and Visual Culture (Edited by Itohan Osayimwese, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023)
An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa (Adam A. Blackler, Penn State University Press, 2023)
Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa (Holger Droessler, Harvard University Press, 2022)
Colonial Geography: Race and Space in German East Africa, 1884-1905 (Matthew Unangst, University of Toronto Press, 2022)
The Play World: Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood (Patricia Anne Simpson, 2020)
Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919 (Erik Grimmer-Solem, Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa (Marie A. Muschalek, 2019)
Revenants of the German Empire: Colonial Germans, the League of Nations, and Imperialism (Sean Andrew Wempe, 2019)
Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories (Edited by Tiffany Florvil and Vanessa Plumly, 2018)
German Colonial Wars and the Context of Military Violence (Susanne Kuss, translated by Andrew Smith, Harvard University Press, 2017)
Colonialism and Modern Architecture in Germany (Itohan Osayimwese, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017)
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German Colonialism in a Global Age (Edited by Bradley Naranch and Geoff Eley, 2014) Including:
"Empire by Land or Sea? Germany's Imperial Imaginary, 1840-1945" (Geoff Eley)
"Science and Civilizing Missions: Germans and the Transnational Community of Tropical Medicine" (Deborah J. Neill)
"Ruling Africa: Science as Sovereignty in the German Colonial Empire and Its Aftermath" (Andrew Zimmerman)
"Mass-Marketing the Empire: Colonial Fantasies and Advertising Visions" (David Ciarlo)
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German Colonialism and National Identity (Edited by Michael Perraudin and Jurgen Zimmerer, 2017). Including:
"Between Amnesia and Denial: Colonialism and German National Identity" (Perraudin and Zimmerer)
"Exotic Education: Writing Empire for German Boys and Girls, 1884-1914" (Jeffrey Bowersox)
"Beyond Empire: German Women in Africa, 1919-1933" (Britta Schilling)
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Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany (David Ciarlo, Harvard University Press, 2011)
The German Forest: Nature, Identity, and the Contestation of a National Symbol, 1871-1914 (Jeffrey K. Wilson, University of Toronto Press, 2012)
The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa (George Steinmetz, 2007)
