Magic Lantern Empire : : Colonialism and Society in Germany / / John Phillip Short.
Magic Lantern Empire examines German colonialism as a mass cultural and political phenomenon unfolding at the center of a nascent, conflicted German modernity. John Phillip Short draws together strands of propaganda and visual culture, science and fantasy to show how colonialism developed as a conte...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) :; 4-page color insert, 27 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Empire as World and Idea: Colonialism and Society in Germany
- 1. Estrangement: Structures and Limits of the Colonial Public Sphere
- 2. World of Work, World of Goods: Propaganda and the Formation of Its Object
- 3. No Place in the Sun: The People's Empire
- 4. Carnival Knowledge: Enlightenment and Distraction in the Cultural Field
- 5. Ethnographic-Fantastic: Working-Class Readers at the Colonial Library
- 6. The Hottentot Elections: Colonial Politics, Socialist Politics
- Magic Lantern Empire: Reflections on Colonialism and Society
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index