Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg

European Colonialism in Global Perspective

Edited by: Jürgen Zimmerer

ISSN: 2941-3095

e-ISSN 2941-3109

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Colonial Globalisation shaped the modern world – intentionally but also by the multi-facetted reactions to it by colonized peoples, which range from resistance to creative adaption and accommodation. Any modern history of the globalised world therefore needs to engage with its colonial origins. This book series publishes original peer-reviewed contributions on all aspects of colonial and postcolonial history from any region and period.　　

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Memories of German Colonialism in Tanzania

Reginald Elias Kirey

Volume 2 in this series

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German colonial history in today Tanzania Mainlad is extensively documented, but it has not been studied from its memory perspective despite it being widely remembered among the Tanzanians. This book documents German colonial memories as shared cultural legacy that exists in forms of monuments, archives and historical sites. It also presents them as trans-generational memory narratives that live in people’s memories that are also commemorated in different ways like erection of war monuments. The book analyzes memories of colonialism from the historical perspective, showing how the collective memories like monuments and commemorations have undergone structural and institutional changes over time. The study uses Michael Rothberg’s multi-directional theory, together with other theoretical approaches to analyze various forms of German colonial memories in Tanzanian context. The findings, which are analyzed historically, indicate that the collective memories of the Germans are cultural, communicative, commemorative, functional and topographical. They are also traumatic as well as nostalgic.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111055619
ISBN:: 9783111055619
ISBN:: 9783111056128
ISBN:: 9783110996296
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History until 1945
Subject:: Other Topics
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Africa
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Colonial and Postcolonial History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Book Open Access 2023

From Windhoek to Auschwitz?

Reflections on the Relationship between Colonialism and National Socialism

Jürgen Zimmerer

Volume 1 in this series

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Forty years before the war of annihilation in eastern Europe and the Holocaust, German colonial troops in German South West Africa perpetrated the first genocide of the twentieth century. From Windhoek to Auschwitz? interrogates the relationship between colonialism and National Socialism, using genocide, the 'racial state', and systems of forced labour as points of departure for comparative observation. The book is an indispensable document in the intensive debate among German and international scholars about the postcolonial expansion of German history, and it offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and also the 'Third Reich'.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110754513
ISBN:: 9783110754513
ISBN:: 9783110754605
ISBN:: 9783110754209
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History until 1945
Subject:: Other Topics
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Africa
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Colonial and Postcolonial History
Publisher:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg