Kolonie Deutsch

Author : Philip E. Webber
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587298880
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kolonie-Deutsch written by Philip E. Webber and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded as a communal society in 1855 by German Pietists, the seven villages of Iowa’s Amana Colonies make up a community whose crafts, architecture, and institutions reflect—and to an extent perpetuate—the German heritage of earlier residents. In this intriguing blend of sociolinguistic research and stories from Colonists both past and present, Philip Webber examines the rich cultural and linguistic traditions of the Amanas. Although the Colonies are open to the outside world, particularly after the Great Change of 1932, many distinctive vestiges of earlier lifeways survive, including the local variety of German known by its speakers as Kolonie-Deutsch. Drawing upon interviews with more than fifty Amana-German speakers in 1989 and 1990, Webber explores the nuances of this home-grown German, signaling the development of local microdialects, the changing pattern in the use of German in the Colonies, and the reciprocal influence of English and German on residents’ speech. By letting his sources tell their own stories of earlier days, in which the common message seems to be wir haben fun gehabt or “we had fun working together,” he illuminates the history and unique qualities of each Colony through the prism of language study. Webber’s introduction to this paperback edition provides an up-to-date itinerary for visitors to the Colonies, information about recent publications on Amana history and culture, and an overview of expanded research opportunities for language study and historical inquiry. The result is an informative and engaging study that will be appreciated by linguists, anthropologists, and historians as well as by general readers interested in these historic villages.

Author : Kolonie und Heimat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eine Reise durch die deutschen Kolonien: Bd. Deutsch-Ostafrika. 2. verb. Aufl written by Kolonie und Heimat and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kolonie und Heimat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eine Reise durch die deutschen Kolonien: Bd. Deutsch Südwest-Afrika written by Kolonie und Heimat and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deutsche Kolonialzeitung written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jörg Haustein
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031274237
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam in German East Africa, 1885–1918 written by Jörg Haustein and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich and multi-layered deconstruction of German colonial engagement with Islam, Jörg Haustein shows how imperial agents in Germany’s largest colony wielded the knowledge category of Islam in a broad set of debates, ranging from race, language, and education to slavery, law, conflict, and war. These representations of ‘Mohammedanism’, often invoked for particular political ends, amounted to a serious misreading of Muslims in East Africa, with significant long-term effects. As the first in-depth account of the politics of Islam in German East Africa, the book makes an essential contribution to the history of religion in Tanzania before British rule. It also offers a template for re-reading the colonial archive in a manner that recovers Muslim agency beyond a European paradigm of religion.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deutsch-amerikanische Geschichtsblätter written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Kalb
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800734573
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environing Empire written by Martin Kalb and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futile for most. For years colonists wrestled ocean waters, desert landscapes, and widespread aridity as they tried to reach inland in their effort of turning outwardly barren lands into a profitable settler colony. In his innovative environmental history, Martin Kalb outlines the development of the colony up to World War I, deconstructing the common settler narrative, all to reveal the importance of natural forces and the Kaisereich’s everyday violence.

Author : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and History
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic and Social History of the World War. (German Series) written by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and History and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lorena Rizzo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429800045
Total Pages : 278 pages
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Download or read book Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa written by Lorena Rizzo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the relationship between photography and history in colonial Southern Africa, using a series of encounters with Southern African photographic archives to reflect on photography as a distinct historical form. Through use of private and public archives, images produced by African itinerant photographers, white settlers, and colonial state institutions, this book explores the relationship between photography and history in colonial Southern Africa. Late nineteenth century Cape Colonial prison albums, police photographs from German Southwest Africa, African studio portraits, identity documents, travel permits and passports from the 1920s and 1930s, visual studies of whiteness and blackness authored by settler photographers, South African dompas photographs from the 1950s and 1960s, and aerial photography from the Eastern Cape in the mid-twentieth century are examined to highlight the ways in which photographic images cut across conventional institutional boundaries and complicate rigid distinctions between the private and the public, the political and the aesthetic, the colonial and the vernacular, or the subject and the object. Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa argues that rather than understanding photographs as a means of preserving and recreating the past in the present, we can value them for how they evoke at once the need for and the limits of historical reconstruction. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of colonial history, photographic history, visual media, and African studies.

Author : Jürgen Zimmerer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789207509
Total Pages : 440 pages
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Download or read book German Rule, African Subjects written by Jürgen Zimmerer and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it lasted only thirty years, German colonial rule dramatically transformed South West Africa. The colonial government not only committed the first genocide of the twentieth century against the Herero and Nama, but in their efforts to establish a “model colony” and “racial state,” they brought about even more destructive and long-lasting consequences. In this now-classic study—available here for the first time in English—the author provides an indispensable account of Germany's colonial utopia in what is present-day Namibia, showing how the highly rationalized planning of Wilhelmine authorities ultimately failed even as it added to the profound immiseration of the African population.