German Colonialism - Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany

Informationen zum Autor Volker Langbehn teaches German in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at San Francisco State University and is the editor of German Colonialism! Visual Culture! and Modern Memory. Mohammad Salama teaches Arabic in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at San Francisco State University and is the author of Islam! Orientalism! and Intellectual History: Modernity and the Politics of Exclusion Since Ibn Khaldun. Klappentext More than half a century before the mass executions of the Holocaust! Germany devastated the peoples of southwestern Africa. While colonialism might seem marginal to German history! controversial new scholarship compares the acts of this period with Nazi practices on the Eastern and Western fronts. Examples of the most important research conducted on the "continuity thesis" over the past five years! the chapters in this anthology debate the connections between German colonialist activities and the behavior of Germany during World War II.

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• Authors: Volker Langbehn, Volker (EDT) Langbehn, Volker (San Francisco State University) Langbehn, Volker Salama Langbehn
• Assisted by: Volker Langbehn (Editor), Volker (San Francisco State University) Langbehn (Editor), Langbehn Volker (Editor), Mohammad Salama (Editor), Mohammad (San Francisco State University) Salama (Editor), Salama Mohammad (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.04.2011
• EAN: 9780231149730
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14973-0
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Columbia University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; History, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Africa / West, HISTORY / Africa / South / General, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Colonialism and imperialism, African History