By Eric Ames
Germany’s Colonial Pasts is a wide-ranging examine of German colonialism and its legacies. encouraged via Susanne Zantop’s landmark publication Colonial Fantasies, and increasing her analyses there, this quantity bargains new learn via students from Europe, Africa, and the USA. It additionally commemorates Zantop’s extraordinary existence and profession (1945–2001). Some essays during this quantity concentrate on Germany’s formal colonial empire in Africa and the Pacific among 1884 and 1914, whereas others current fabric from previous or later classes similar to German emigration prior to 1884 and colonial discourse in German-ruled Polish lands. a number of essays research Germany’s postcolonial period, a posh interval that comes with the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany with its renewed colonial obsessions, and the post-1945 period. specific parts of emphasis contain the connection of anti-Semitism to colonial racism; respectability, sexuality, and cultural hierarchies within the formal empire; Nazi representations of colonialism; and modern perceptions of race. The volume’s disciplinary succeed in extends to musicology, spiritual experiences, movie, and tourism reports in addition to literary research and background. those essays display why smooth Germany needs to confront its colonial and postcolonial pasts, and the way these pasts proceed to form the German cultural mind's eye. (20070618)
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Smith, Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 5–24. 7. Smith, Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 189–91. 8. Smith, Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 25–62. 9. Smith, Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 63–103. 10. Smith, Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 105–38. 11. Smith, Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 139–69. 12. Smith, Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 171–87. 39993 ——— Normal Pa PgEnds: TE [18], (18) Colonialism and the Culture of Respectability 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 13.
By drawing on a variety of analytical methods and theoretical approaches to identify and interpret new historical artifacts and textual sources, they succeeded in revitalizing older traditions of German colonial historiography and in attracting new participants to what had long been a peripheral topic. Some of the preliminary results of their efforts were on display in the 1998 edited collection, The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy. 2 In contrast to Zantop’s interest in German colonial fantasies set in South American landscapes of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, however, the majority of contributors focused on events and issues drawn from Germany’s postcolonial history after 1919, while others covered topics from the pre-war colonial period.
The growth of an ironic usage of the term “respectable” was to some extent a response to a growing tendency to hold the aristocracy, indeed, the entire political elite of Britain, up to the criterion of respectability as a test of moral fitness for high public status – to find the pre-Victorian culture of aristocracy wanting in this regard. By the mid-nineteenth century, it became acceptable even for members of the nobility to be accounted respectable, although by no means all of them were. ” 9 It developed around both the new aesthetic of “taste” and an approach to sensuality that emphasized the permissibility – indeed, the desirability – of a wide range of sensual experiences within the limits of conventional moral and institutional frameworks.