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Product Description: Human rights language is abstract and ahistorical because advocates intend human rights to be valid at all times and places. Yet the abstract universality of human rights discourse is a problem for historians, who seek to understand language in a particular time and place...read more
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9780812244489 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, October 17, 2012, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Human rights language is abstract and ahistorical because advocates intend human rights to be valid at all times and places.
Product Description: Germanyâs Colonial Pasts is a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies. Inspired by Susanne Zantopâs landmark book Colonial Fantasies, and extending her analyses there, this volume offers new research by scholars from Europe, Africa, and the United States...read more
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9780803248199 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, December 1, 2005, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Germanyâs Colonial Pasts is a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies.
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9780803227835 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, July 1, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Germanyâs Colonial Pasts is a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies.
When Germany annexed colonies in Africa and the Pacific beginning in the 1880s, many German women were enthusiastic. At the same time, however, they found themselves excluded from what they saw as a great nationalistic endeavor. In German Women for Empire, 1884â1945 Lora Wildenthal untangles the varied strands of racism, feminism, and nationalism that thread through German womenâs efforts to participate in this episode of overseas colonization. In confrontation and sometimes cooperation with men over their place in the colonial project, German women launched nationalist and colonialist campaigns for increased settlement and new state policies. Wildenthal analyzes recently accessible Colonial Office archives as well as mission society records, periodicals, womenâs memoirs, and fiction to show how these women created niches for themselves in the colonies. They emphasized their unique importance for white racial âpurityâ and the inculcation of German culture in the family. While pressing for career opportunities for themselves, these women also campaigned against interracial marriage and circulated an image of African and Pacific women as sexually promiscuous and inferior. As Wildenthal discusses, the German colonial imaginary persisted even after the German colonial empire was no longer a reality. The womenâs colonial movement continued into the Nazi era, combining with other movements to help turn the racialist thought of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries into the hierarchical evaluation of German citizens as well as colonial subjects. Students and scholars of womenâs history, modern German history, colonial politics and culture, postcolonial theory, race/ethnicity, and gender will welcome this groundbreaking study.
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9780822328070 | Duke Univ Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $94.95
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9780822328193 | Duke Univ Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: When Germany annexed colonies in Africa and the Pacific beginning in the 1880s, many German women were enthusiastic.
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