The Devil's Handwriting

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CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

CHAPTER 1
 Introduction: Ethnography and the Colonial State
  Three Colonies
  Making Sense of Colonial Variations
  The Specificity of the Colonial State
  Precolonial Mimicry and the Central Role of Native Policy
  Toward an Explanation: The Colonial State as Social field
  Symbolic and Imaginary Identifications
  Resistance, Collaboration, and Infections of Native Policy by Its Addressees
  Imperial Germany and the German Empire

PART ONE: SOUTH WEST AFRICA

CHAPTER 2
  "A World Composed Almost Entirely of Contradictions": Southwest Africans in German Eyes, before Colonialism
  Precolonial and Protocolonial Imagery of Southwest Africans
  The Khoikhoi: The Path to Precolonial Mimicry
  The Rehoboth Basters: Pure Intermediacy
  The Ovaherero: A Radically Simplified Ethnographic Discourse
  Toward Colonialism

CHAPTER 3
  From Native Policy to Genocide to Eugenics: German Southwest Africa
  Accessing the Inaccessible
  The Germans and the Witbooi People
  "Rivers of Blood and Rivers of Money": Germans and Ovaherero
  Collaboration and the Rule of Difference: The Reheboth Basters under German Rule
  Conclusion

PART TWO: SAMOA

CHAPTER 4
  "A Foreign Race That All Travelers Have Agreed to be the Most Engaging": The Creation of the Samoan Noble savage, by way of Tahiti
  The Idea of Polynesian Noble Savagery
  Europeans on Polynesia in the Wake of Wallis and Bougainville: The Tahitian Metonym
  Polynesia and Tahiti in German Eyes, 1770s-1850
  Nineteenth-Century Social Change in Polynesia and the Increasing Attractiveness of Samoa
  Nineteenth-Century Samoa: From Lapérouse to the Germans
  The Evolution of European and German Representations of Samoa
  Precolonial Guidelines for a Future Native Policy
 
CHAPTER 5
  "The Spirit of the German Nation at Work in the Antipodes": German Colonialism in Samoa, 1900-1914
  Salvage Colonialism
  The Sources of Native Policy in Samoa
  Class distinction and Class Exaltation
  Conclusion: Resistance and the Limits on Colonial Native Policy

PART THREE: CHINA

CHAPTER 6
  The Foreign Devil's Handwriting: German Views of China before "Kiautschou"
  Europe's Cathay
  Sinomania
  German Views of China in the Era of Sinomania
  The Rise of Sinophobia
  German Sinophobia
  En Route to Quingdao: Speaking of the Devil
  Multivocality in German Representations of China at the End of the Nineteenth Century
  Toward "German-China"
  Transition

CHAPTER 7
  A Pact with the (Foreign) Devil: Qingdao as a Colony
  Bumrush the Show: Germans in Colonial Kiaochow, 1897-1905
  Shaken, Not Stirred: Segregated Colonial Space and Radical Alterity During the First Phase of German Colonialism in Kiaochow, 1897-1904
  German Native Policy in Kiaochow, Compared
  Early Native Policy and the Haunting of Sinophobia by Sinophilia
  The Seminar for Oriental Languages and German Sinology as a Conduit for Sinophilia
  Rapproachment: The Second Phase of German Colonialism in Kiaochow, 1905-14
  Explaining the Shift in Native Policy
  Conclusion

CHAPTER 8
  Conclusion: Colonial Afterlives

Appendix 1: A Note on Sources and Procedures
Appendix 2: Head Administrators of German Southwest Africa, Samoa, and Kiaochow
Bibliography
Index