Magic Lantern Empire : : Colonialism and Society in Germany /

Magic Lantern Empire : : Colonialism and Society in Germany / / John Phillip Short.

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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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Short, John Phillip,
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

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