Germany's Colony in China
Germany's Colony in China

Author: Fion Wai Ling So

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-15

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 131735902X

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This book explores the economic development of the northern Chinese city of Qingdao, which was held by Germany as a colony from 1898 to 1914. It focuses especially on the economic polices of the German colonial government and of the provincial government of the neighbouring Chinese province of Shandong, considering amongst other issues free trade and protection, the impact of the Gold Standard and assistance given to particular companies. The book shows how the Qingdao and Shandong economies fitted into overall East Asian and global trade patterns and how during this period these economies became more fully integrated into the world economy. The book concludes by discussing how although there was a great deal of co-operation between the Qingdao and Shandong governments, there were also growing tensions.

German Colonialism Revisited
German Colonialism Revisited

Author: Nina Berman

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2014-01-22

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0472119125

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The first collection of interdisciplinary and comparative studies focusing on diverse interactions among African, Asian, and Oceanic peoples and German colonizers

The Devil's Handwriting
The Devil's Handwriting

Author: George Steinmetz

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-09-15

Total Pages: 685

ISBN-13: 0226772446

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Germany’s overseas colonial empire was relatively short lived, lasting from 1884 to 1918. During this period, dramatically different policies were enacted in the colonies: in Southwest Africa, German troops carried out a brutal slaughter of the Herero people; in Samoa, authorities pursued a paternalistic defense of native culture; in Qingdao, China, policy veered between harsh racism and cultural exchange. Why did the same colonizing power act in such differing ways? In The Devil’s Handwriting, George Steinmetz tackles this question through a brilliant cross-cultural analysis of German colonialism, leading to a new conceptualization of the colonial state and postcolonial theory. Steinmetz uncovers the roots of colonial behavior in precolonial European ethnographies, where the Hereros were portrayed as cruel and inhuman, the Samoans were idealized as “noble savages,” and depictions of Chinese culture were mixed. The effects of status competition among colonial officials, colonizers’ identification with their subjects, and the different strategies of cooperation and resistance offered by the colonized are also scrutinized in this deeply nuanced and ambitious comparative history.

France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840-1930
France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840-1930

Author: Bert Becker

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-07-02

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 3030526046

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This book explores imperial power and the transnational encounters of shipowners and merchants in the South China Sea from 1840 to 1930. With British Hong Kong and French Indochina on its northern and western shores, the ‘Asian Mediterranean’ was for almost a century a crucible of power and an axis of economic struggle for coastal shipping companies from various nations. Merchant steamers shipped cargoes and passengers between ports of the region. Hong Kong, the global port city, and the colonial ports of Saigon and Haiphong developed into major hubs for the flow of goods and people, while Guangzhouwan survived as an almost forgotten outpost of Indochina. While previous research in this field has largely remained within the confines of colonial history, this book uses the examples of French and German companies operating in the South China Sea to demonstrate the extent to which transnational actors and business networks interacted with imperial power and the process of globalisation.

Germany and the Modern World, 1880–1914
Germany and the Modern World, 1880–1914

Author: Mark Hewitson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 1107039150

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Re-assesses Germany's relationship with the wider world before 1914 by examining the connections between nationalism, transnationalism, imperialism and globalization.

German Colonialism in a Global Age
German Colonialism in a Global Age

Author: Bradley Naranch

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2015-02-20

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 0822376393

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This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the German colonial empire and its significance. Leading scholars show not only how the colonies influenced metropolitan life and the character of German politics during the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine eras (1871–1918), but also how colonial mentalities and practices shaped later histories during the Nazi era. In introductory essays, editors Geoff Eley and Bradley Naranch survey the historiography and broad developments in the imperial imaginary of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors then examine a range of topics, from science and the colonial state to the disciplinary constructions of Africans as colonial subjects for German administrative control. They consider the influence of imperialism on German society and culture via the mass-marketing of imperial imagery; conceptions of racial superiority in German pedagogy; and the influence of colonialism on German anti-Semitism. The collection concludes with several essays that address geopolitics and the broader impact of the German imperial experience. Contributors. Dirk Bönker, Jeff Bowersox, David Ciarlo, Sebastian Conrad, Christian S. Davis, Geoff Eley, Jennifer Jenkins, Birthe Kundus, Klaus Mühlhahn, Bradley Naranch, Deborah Neill, Heike Schmidt, J. P. Short, George Steinmetz, Dennis Sweeney, Brett M. Van Hoesen, Andrew Zimmerman

German Colonial Wars and the Context of Military Violence
German Colonial Wars and the Context of Military Violence

Author: Susanne Kuss

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2017-03-27

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 0674970632

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Some historians have traced a line from Germany’s atrocities in its colonial wars to those committed by the Nazis during WWII. Susanne Kuss dismantles these claims, rejecting the notion that a distinctive military ethos or policy of genocide guided Germany’s conduct of operations in Africa and China, despite acts of unquestionable brutality.

Shaping Modern Shanghai
Shaping Modern Shanghai

Author: Isabella Jackson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1108419682

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An innovative study of colonialism in China, examining Shanghai's International Settlement as the site of key developments in the Republican period.

German Colonialism
German Colonialism

Author: Sebastian Conrad

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 110700814X

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This book explores the wide-ranging consequences of Germany's short-lived colonial project for the nation, and European and global history.

Sex and Control
Sex and Control

Author: Daniel J. Walther

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2015-03-01

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1782385924

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In responding to the perceived threat posed by venereal diseases in Germany’s colonies, doctors took a biopolitical approach that employed medical and bourgeois discourses of modernization, health, productivity, and morality. Their goal was to change the behavior of targeted groups, or at least to isolate infected individuals from the healthy population. However, the Africans, Pacific Islanders, and Asians they administered to were not passive recipients of these strategies. Rather, their behavior strongly influenced the efficacy and nature of these public health measures. While an apparent degree of compliance was achieved, over time physicians increasingly relied on disciplinary measures beyond what was possible in Germany in order to enforce their policies. Ultimately, through their discourses and actions they contributed to the justification for and the maintenance of German colonialism.