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106 Heyden and Zeller, 117. Gujarati was necessary as it was the language of the Indian traders of East Africa. Wright, 624. Pike, 217. 107 Books and pamphlets were published in Germany on a range of topics around the African colonies such as Carl Gotthilf Büttner’s seminal work on The Songs and History of the Swaheli. 108 Eckart, 270-271. 109 Zimmermann, Volume 5, 14. Runderlatz des Governeurs von Deutsch-Ostafrika, betreffend sammlungen furs Kolonialmuseum, 9 January 1900. 110 Various road and railway survey expeditions trekked across Africa from 1885 to 1916. R1001 6 Eisenbahnsachen und technische Angelegenheiten. Mflm: Various/9649. Bau und Betrieb von Eisenbahnen in den Kolonien. Materialsammlung. 111 R1001 9 Deutsch-Südwestafrika. 1994 76/ 2. Original Map of Greater Namaqualand and Damaraland. October 1879. Thomas Hahn. 112 Thomas, 4. Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991), 33. 113 Bayart, 269. Chapter Three 1 Examples of Marxist-informed arguments are the works of Schröder, Stoecker, Kuczynski, Fricke, Hallgarten and Nussbaum. 2 Smith, “The Ideology of German Colonialism,” 1. 3 Baumgart, Deutschland im Zeitalter des Imperialismus, 36. 4 Gründer, Geschichte der deutschen Kolonien, 238. Even in relative terms, colonial trade grew lethargically, from 0.2% of total international trade in the 1890s to 0.5% in 1914. 5 Pierard, 371. Deutsche Kolonial Zeitung, August 28 1897, 347. 136
6 In fact, the Southwest African colony had such woeful early economic prospects that Wilhelm II seriously considered giving up the colony in favour of concentration upon the more economically-viable East Africa. Drechsler, “Let Us Die Fighting,” 52. 7 Brode, 2. Drechsler identifies a transitional period in the nineteenth century before capital was available for colonial investment in: Drechsler, Let Us Die Fighting, 4-5. 8 Wehler uses: “kommerzielen Laissez-faire-Expansionismus” and “Handelskolonien” to explain Bismarck’s vision in: Wehler, Bismarck und Imperialismus, 197. 9 David K. Fieldhouse, “Imperialism: An Historiographical Revision,” Economic History Review 14, no. 2, (1961): 197, 199. Böhme. 10 Colonial Governor Heinrich Goering plaintively called for the DKGfürSWA to enhance its commercial presence in the colony. R1001 9 Deutsch-Südwestafrika. Gesellschaft und Vereine 10b #1. Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft für Südwestafrika. Mflm 79452/1522. Letter from Landeshauptmann Heinrich Goering (Walfisch Bai) to Bismarck. 18 August 1887. The volume of correspondence between the RKA and various commercial interests testifies to this. R1001 433 Gesellschaften und Vereine 10a #3d Mflm 79343. Letter from Bismarck to Deutsch Ostafrikanische Plantagen Gesellschaft, 7 March 1889. R1001 Expeditionen und Reisende 4b Mflm 79450 /1522 Gesellschaft und Vereine 10b #1 (Specialia) Deutsche Kolonial Gesellschaft für Südwestafrika. R1001 9 Deutsch-Südwestafrika. Gesellschaft und Vereine 10b #1. Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft für Südwestafrika. Mflm 79452/1522. Letter from Auswärtiges Amt to DKGfürSWA. 28 Mai 1886. For instance, a Deutsche- Ostafrikanische Bank was established to ease trade and establish the imperial mark in East Africa. R1001 1 Allgemeine Angelegenheiten. 1.6 Bankwesen. Mflm 6411 Deutsche-Ostafrikanische Bank. Konzession der Deutsche-Ostafrikanische Bank, 3 June 1904. Vertrag zwischen dem Kaiserlichen Gouvernement und der Deutsche- Ostafrikanische Bank. 11 Meritt, 104. 12 For instance, government supported organizations like the Deutsche Ostafrikanische Plantagengesellschaft or German East Africa Plantation Company which promised a doubling of invested capital, and thus the enrichment of all Germany. R1001 8 Deutsche-Ostafrika. 8.12 Gesellschaften. 8.12.3 Deutsche Witu-Gesellschaft. 10a #3d Mflm 79343 /433. 104.3 Satzungs-Entwurf der Deutsche Ostafrikanische Plantagen Gesellschaft, October 1885. 13 R1001 9 Deutsche-Südwestafrika Expeditionen und Reisende 4b Mflm 79450 /1518 Gesellschaft und Vereine 10b (Specialia) 72.6 Deutsche-südwestafrikaische Straußenzucht und Federeinführ Gmbh. Prospectus. 13 May 1911. 14 Amenumey, 623-639. Nussbaum. 137
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A Deterritorialized History: Invest
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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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capital does not only reterritorial
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the state’s assumption of soverei
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Page 101 and 102: policy. 98 However this still does
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Page 109 and 110: Conclusion 105 This study has focus
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Page 121 and 122: A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and
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Page 161 and 162: Epstein, Klaus. “Erzberger and th
Page 163 and 164: Holland, Eugene W. “’Deterritor
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Page 167 and 168: 1907-1915.” The International Jou
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