How to research the history, origin and meaning of museum objects that were acquired in colonial times and contexts? In March 2022, the Netherlands-based NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD/ECR), facilitated by the National Museum of World Cultures (NMVW) and the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, published 50 detailed provenance reports about the history of 65 museum objects that were ...

Ph. D.,Yale University,2012 xii, 353 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm

"In the months following the beginning of the Second World War, increasing numbers of Nigerians offered moral support to Britain. But they did much more, including producing needed agricultural and mineral products, entering the army, and meeting the labor needs in several other areas. While Nigeria did not directly experience the conflict on its soil, the war nevertheless had a knock-on effect on ...

Forty years prior to the Holocaust, German colonial troops in German Southwest Africa (known today as Namibia) murdered up to 80000 Herero and 20000 Nama, and caused many more thousands to perish in the desert and as slave laborers in concentration camps. During the last decade, a fierce debate has emerged regarding the Herero and Nama genocide and its meaning within German 20th-century history, particularly ...

More than half a century before the mass executions of the Holocaust, Germany devastated the peoples of southwestern Africa. While colonialism might seem marginal to German history, new scholarship compares these acts to Nazi practices on the Eastern and Western fronts. With some of the most important essays from the past five years exploring the "continuity thesis," this anthology debates the links ...

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In the global race for growth, the Asia-Pacific region is emerging as the front runner. This study provides a comprehensive history of today's East Asia, tracing the essential stages in the rise of the region, from its birth under colonial rule to the post-Cold War period. The New Asian Renaissance recounts the evolution of China, Japan, North & South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Burma, the Philippines, ...

"'The complete lives of camp people' brings together a study of the infamous Dutch colonial camp for political prisoners, Boven Digoel, located in an isolated part of New Guinea, with a consideration of the Nazi work camp Theresienstadt. Through a focus on the minutiae of daily life in these camps, Rudolf Mrázek shows how the world of the twentieth century became the world of the camps. The project ...

... events and dates prep. by J. Romein and W.F. Wertheim, who also have written the introd. chapters ..., the captions and running text accompanying the plates ... by H.M. van Randwijk ; ... a translation from the Dutch ... prep. by James S. Holmes and A. van Marle. 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject: De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: In pursuit of greater France: visions of Empire among Musée Social reformers, 1894-1931 / door Janet R. Horne; "Special customs": paternity suits and citizenship in France and the colonies, 1870-1912 / door Jean Elisabeth Petersen; Redefining "Frenchness": citizenship, race regeneration, and imperial motherhood in France and West Africa, 1914-40 / door ...

"Race relations" are a controversial topic in today's Germany. Have Germans learned from the past? How far back must one go to understand the tensions, prejudices, and strategies that have marked race relations in the recently unified nation? The Imperialist Imagination explores the German preoccupation with racial and ethnic differences throughout the past two centuries, in a colonial and "postcolonial" ...

Photocopies of records related to the German Africa Show (Deutsche Afrika-Schau), a tour in Germany organized by the NSDAP to promote German racist ideology and support for colonialism in Africa.

Consists of an article entitled "Die Grosse Negertrommel der kolonialen Werbung: Die Deutsche Afrika-Schau 1935-1943" [The Big Negro Drum of Promoting Colonialism: the German Afrika-Show], by Elisa Forgey, which was originally published in Werkstatt Geschichte in 1994. The article describes the ways in which black performers were humiliated and abused during the Nazi era.

History of the fall of the Dutch colonialism in Indonesia. Revision of the author's thesis. viii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Geïnterviewde 04 is kind van een Nederlandse militair en een Indonesische moeder, verwekt tijdens de koloniale oorlog 1946-1949 in Indonesië. De geïnterviewde is geboren in Surabaya, Java. De geïnterviewde was het vierde kind in het gezin. Zijn (Indische) moeder was met 3 kleine kinderen achtergebleven toen haar (Armeense) man werd vermoord door de Japanners. Na de Bersiap periode werkte zij in de ...

There has existed the naïve assumption that until the unsolicited advent of colonialism, the so-called "noble and savage" tribes had no legal system worthy of attention. The Igbo people were not exempted from this assumption. Justice itself cannot be realized outside a system of law and its institutions. It is a system in which law is a vital aspect of man's culture and social existence; embodying ...

Political issues on the struggle for independence of Indonesia from the Dutch colonialism. Weekly v. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Becoming Japanese analyzes the ways in which the Taiwanese struggled, negotiated, and collaborated with Japanese colonialism during the cultural practices of assimilation and imperialization. It chronicles a historiography of colonial identity formations that delineates the shift from a collective and heterogeneous political horizon into a personal and inner struggle of "becoming Japanese." Representing ...

Geïnterviewde 05 is kind van een Nederlandse militair en een Indische moeder, verwekt tijdens de koloniale oorlog 1946-1949 in Indonesië. De geinterviewde en zijn tweelingbroer V. zijn geboren in Surabaya, Java. Het Oral History interview met hun biologische vader, Vader_NL_08, is te vinden bij Project Oorlogsliefdekind: de soldatenvaders. Als de tweeling, de geïnterviewde en V., wordt geboren, is ...

'Germany's Colonial Pasts' is a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies. Includes bibliographical references and index. xxi, 255 pages ; 23 cm.

"As a former colonized nation, Indonesia has a unique place in the history of photography. 'A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age' looks at the development of photography from the beginning and traces its uses in Indonesia from its invention to the present day. The Dutch colonial government first brought the medium to the East Indies in the 1840s and immediately ...

Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In his groundbreaking book, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective, examining the problem of state consolidation from ...

Bevat: The dark side of transnationalism social engineering and Nazism, 1930s-40s / Kiran Klaus Patel and Sven Reichardt ; Architecture and urban planning as social engineering: selective transfers between Germany and Sweden in the 1930s and 1940s / David Kuchenbuch ; Engineering the European Volksgemeinschaft: social engineering, pedagogy and fascism in the case of the Swiss Alfred Zander / Martin ...

Reader over welke discussies er gevoerd worden over ras en racisme. Opgedeeld in zes delen:Part I. Origins and Transformation; Part II. Sociology, Race and Social Theory; Part III. Racism and Anti-Semitism; Part IV. Colonialism, Race and the Other; Part V. Feminism, Difference and Identity; Part VI. Changing Bounderies and Spaces. Met lit.opg., reg. xxiv, 646 p. ; 25 cm