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Postcolonial Germany: memories of empire in a decolonized nation

Britta Schilling
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xi)
  • List of Abbreviations (page xiii)
  • Introduction: The Fall of Colonialism and the Rise of Memory (page 1)
  • 1. The 'Africa-Book', 1915-1925 (page 13)
    • 'Good' Colonialists (page 22)
    • Victims of Versailles (page 32)
    • Explaining Heimat (page 35)
  • 2. Colonial Wares, 'Blacks', and Jazz at the Colonial Ball, 1925-1935 (page 41)
    • Kolonialwaren: Bananas, Coffee, and Cocoa (page 48)
    • 'Black' Performers (page 51)
    • Jazz (page 61)
  • 3. The Schoolbook, 1935-1945 (page 68)
    • Education in Weimar and Nazi Germany (page 72)
    • Colonial Violence (page 79)
    • The First World War in Africa (page 81)
    • Teaching the Volksgemeinschaft (page 83)
    • Types of Heroism (page 85)
    • Training in the Will for Colonies (page 87)
  • 4. The State Gift, 1949-1968 (page 90)
    • Cameroun (Fr.) 1960; Cameroon (GB) 1961 (page 98)
    • Togo 1960 (page 107)
    • Tanganyika 1961/Tanzania 1964 (page 113)
    • Rwanda and Burundi 1962 (page 123)
    • Southwest Africa (page 127)
  • 5. The Empty Plinth, 1968-1990 (page 133)
    • Colonialism on the Streets (page 135)
    • Historians and Historiography (page 142)
    • The Namibia Question (page 147)
  • 6. The Family Heirloom: Private Memories of Colonialism (page 155)
    • The History Makers-Colonial Actors' Forming of Family Memory (page 157)
    • Continuities and Discontinuities in 'Decolonized' Memory Making (page 159)
    • Reconsidering Family Memory in the Postcolonial Generation (page 173)
    • 'Working Through'- A Case Study of Generational Encounter (page 186)
  • 7. Conclusion (page 195)
  • Bibliography (page 209)
  • Index (page 253)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JIH 45.4 (Spring. 2015): 583-584 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/570002
AHR 121.2 (Apr. 2016): 669-670 http://www.jstor.org/stable/43955915
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Published: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780198703464 (hardcover)
  • 9780191008450 (ebook)
Subject
  • European: 1800-present
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