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59 All of the articles collected within Bechhaus-Gerst and Klein-Arendt’s work identify such encounters. 60 For example, newspapers such as the Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung were an obvious tool of the colonial settlers’ lobby. R1001 8 Deutsch-Ostafrika. 8.27 Stationen. Mflm 79393 /1026. Militärstationen in Deutsch-Ostafrika. Das Kleine Journal, no. 139, 23 May 1893. Flugblätter des Deutschen Kolonial-Bundes, 27 October 1903. 61 Allgemeine Zeitung, 6 November 1886. The statement can be roughly translated as: “A colonial policy is only patriotic when it is profitable.” 62 R1001 9 Deutsche-Südwestafrika. 9.24 Verwaltungssachen. 9.24.1 Allgemeine Verwaltung. Mflm 79501 /2033 Verwaltung und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung von Deutsch-Südwestafrika. Behandlung der einheimischen Bevölkerung in Südwestafrika. Taglicher Anzicht no. 212, 9 September 1904. 63 R1001 8 Deutsche-Ostafrika. 8.9 Expeditionen, Inspektionen und Reisen. Mflm 79392 /279. Militärische Expeditionen der Schutztruppe. Berliner Tageblatt, 19 September 1891. Responses to these criticisms were equally vehement, Freiherr von Bülow of the Schutztruppe slammed the unpatriotic and negative view of colonialism propounded in some liberal newspapers. R1001 8 Deutsche-Ostafrika. 8.9 Expeditionen, Inspektionen und Reisen. Mflm 79392 /279. Militärische Expeditionen der Schutztruppe. Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung 12 December 1891. 64 R1001 11 Kamerun und Togo. 11.19 Reichstagssachen. Mflm 80239 /4069h. Bundesrats- und Reichstagsverhandlungen über Kamerun – Material. Memorandum from Staatssekretär RKA to German Governor (Cameroon) 31 May 1912. 65 This definition of reification is based in Jameson’s description of the “effacement of the traces of production on the object” from: Jameson, “Marxism and Historicism,” 57. 66 Bechhaus-Gerst and Klein-Arendt. Heyden and Zeller. Friedrichsmeyer, Lennox and Zantop. 67 The museum contained more than three thousand African cultural artifacts, many of them robbed from their owners. For example, the looting of King Yu’s capital in 1905 Cameroon was to provide many treasures for the Kolonialmuseum. 68 R 8023 23 Museen und Archiv. Deutsches Kolonialmuseum zu Berlin. Kolonial Zeitung 3 October 1896. 69 Heyden and Zeller, 142. 132
70 Ulrich van der Heyden, “Afrikaner in der Reichs(colonial)haupstadt. Die Kolonialausstellung im Treptower Park 1896 sowie die Transvaal-Ausstellung auf dem Kurfürstendamm 1897,” Die (koloniale) Begegnung: AfrikanerInnen in Deutschland 1880-1945, Deutsche in Afrika 1880-1918 eds. Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst and Reinhard Klein-Arendt (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2003), 147-156. 71 R 8023 18 Kolonialpropaganda und Ehrungen. 18.3 Werbung und Propaganda. 1084 Kolonial-Denkmaler. Other permanent fixtures of the colonial expansion were the creations of “African Quarters” in German cities where clusters of Petersallees, Togo- Straßes and Swakopmunder-Straßes sprung up. Alexander Honold, “Afrikanisches Viertel: Straßennamen als kolonialer Gedächtnisraum,” in Phantasiereiche: Zur Kulturegeschichte des deutschen Kolonialismus ed. Birthe Kundrus, (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2003), 317-320. 72 R 8023 18 Kolonialpropaganda und Ehrungen. 18.3 Werbung und Propaganda. 1084 Kolonial-Denkmaler. Kolonie und Heimat, no. 18, 16 May 1913. 73 Stones were often brought back from Africa and commemorated as markers for absent bodies resting in African soil such as the Herero Stone of the Garnisonsfriedhof in Neukölln. 74 Heyden and Zeller, 78-79. 75 David M. Ciarlo, “Rasse konsumieren: Von der exotischen zur kolonialen Imagination in der Bildreklame des Wilhelminischen Kaiserreichs,” in Phantasiereiche: Zur Kulturegeschichte des deutschen Kolonialismus ed. Birthe Kundrus, (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2003), 140-142. 76 Andreas Michel, “Formalism to Psychoanalysis: On the Politics of Primitivism in Carl Einstein,” in The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy, eds. Friedrichsmeyer, Lennox and Zantop, 142. 77 Heyden and Zeller, 184-187. 78 W. Mommsen, Max Weber and German Politics: 1890-1920 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), 68-72, 167. Wehler, Bismarck und Imperialismus, 142-154. 79 Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden, Deutsche Kolonisation, 1881. Pakendorf. Peters, New Light on Darkest Africa. Fabri reached an especially large audience with his 1879 jeremiad Bedarf Deutschland der Kolonien? Wildenthal, “’When Men are Weak,’” 53- 57. Heyden and Zeller, 37. Short, 455. 80 John Phillip Short, “Everyman’s Colonial Library: Imperialism and Working-Class Readers in Leipzig, 1890-1914,” German History 21, no. 4 (2003): 448, 455, 473. 133
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Table of Contents Abstract.........
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Introduction In the late nineteenth
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colonialism. Ronald Robinson and Jo
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A frequent argument in the thesis o
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carried further by another. Similar
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etween German and African societies
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The German Setting The growth of Ge
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that the colonial expansion was not
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In 1883 the economic motives for co
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European competitors’ exclusionar
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interest in 1888 in acquiring a col
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1908. There were also plans to conn
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limited to abstract academic invest
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where change is performed upon an e
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implies a deterritorialization of p
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extension of deterritorialization t
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eciprocal reterritorialization mean
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Deterritorialization rejects focus
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historiography has traditionally re
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problems of colonial history, but a
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epresented a vital dynamic within G
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of economic, social and political i
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There was great potential for socie
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Frauenbund were vehemently opposed
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medicine, social organization and m
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y the K-A, the Admiralität, and th
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society actually facilitated treati
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But the Pan-Germans’ relationship
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Nonetheless, not all German papers
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discourses surrounding cultural art
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the civilization of the Germans wit
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Through such cultural deterritorial
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claim to further African territory,
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Foucauldian collection of knowledge
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establishment of boundaries and tri
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Chapter 3 The social and cultural e
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profits. The expansion of colonial
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Yet, while there was much associati
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the colonies in a new manner, since
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security that in turn motivated som
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In addition to territorial disenfra
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Page 161 and 162: Epstein, Klaus. “Erzberger and th
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