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Author:

Schilling, Britta, 1979- author.

Title:

Postcolonial Germany : memories of empire in a decolonized nation / Britta Schilling.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiv, 258 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Entkolonialisierung.
Kollektives Gedächtnis.
Postkolonialismus.
Deutschland.
Germany--History.--History.
Germany--History--History--20th century.
Germany--Historiography.--20th century--Historiography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-251) and index.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.The `Africa-Book', 1915--1925 -- `Good' Colonialists -- Victims of Versailles -- Explaining Heimat -- 2.Colonial Wares, `Blacks', and Jazz at the Colonial Ball, 1925--1935 -- Kolonialwaren: Bananas, Coffee, and Cocoa -- `Black' Performers -- Jazz -- 3.The Schoolbook, 1935--1945 -- Education in Weimar and Nazi Germany -- Colonial Violence -- The First World War in Africa -- Teaching the Volksgemeinschaft -- Types of Heroism -- Training in the Will for Colonies -- 4.The State Gift, 1949--1968 -- Cameroun (Fr.) 1960; Cameroon (GB) 1961 -- Togo 1960 -- Tanganyika 1961/Tanzania 1964 -- Rwanda and Burundi 1962 -- Southwest Africa -- 5.The Empty Plinth, 1968--1990 -- Colonialism on the Streets -- Historians and Historiography -- The Namibia Question -- 6.The Family Heirloom: Private Memories of Colonialism -- The History Makers---Colonial Actors' Forming of Family Memory -- Continuities and Discontinuities in `Decolonized' Memory Making --
Contents note continued: Reconsidering Family Memory in the Postcolonial Generation -- `Working Through'---A Case Study of Generational Encounter -- 7.Conclusion.

Series:

Oxford historical monographs

ISBN:

0198703465 (hardback)
9780198703464 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)879369888

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)