German Colonial Experience

Select Documents on German Rule in Africa, China, and the Pacific 1884-1914
Herausgeber: Knoll, Arthur J.; Hiery, Hermann J.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides readers with an understanding of how the Germans gained, explored, pacified, ruled, and exploited their colonies prior to their loss in World War I, by intensely scrutinizing colonial documents. Many of these documents have never previously been published, even in the original German.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 566
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 809g
• ISBN-13: 9780761839002
• ISBN-10: 0761839003
• Artikelnr.: 28957343

Autorenporträt

Arthur J. Knoll, the retired David E. Underdown Professor of History at The University of the South, taught African, Middle Eastern, and military history for thirty-seven years. Hermann J. Hiery holds the Chair for Modern History at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. He is a specialist in the history of Germany's former Pacific colonies and the Chairman of the German Society for Overseas history.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 1. Colonial Agitation and Pre-history
Chapter 4 2. Acquisition of Colonies
Chapter 5 3. Charter Companies
Chapter 6 4. Colonial Military and Police
Chapter 7 5. Governance
Chapter 8 6. Colonial Biographies
Chapter 9 7. Law
Chapter 10 8. Labor
Chapter 11 9. Economy
Chapter 12 10. Infrastructure
Chapter 13 11. Science
Chapter 14 12. Ecology
Chapter 15 13. Religion
Chapter 16 14. Education
Chapter 17 15. Settler Societies and Self-Rule
Chapter 18 18. Viewing the "Other"
Chapter 19 19. Indigenous Responses to Colonial Rule
Chapter 20 20. Judging the German Colonial Performance
Chapter 21 Abbreviations
Chapter 22 Sources for the Documents