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In this book, the author uses such key colonial-era films as L'Atlantide and Pepe le Moko to document how the French cinema reflected the changing policies and values of French colonialism in the inter-war period. Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-288) and index. xv, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

204 p.

"Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire analyses the history of the negotiations that led to the atypical return of colonial-era cultural property from the Netherlands to Indonesia in the 1970s. By doing so, the book shows that competing visions of post-colonial redress were contested throughout the era of post-World War Two decolonization. Considering the danger this precedent posed to other ...

"Drawing on previously inaccessible and overlooked archival sources, The Herero Genocide undertakes a groundbreaking investigation into the war between colonizer and colonized in what was formerly German South-West Africa and is today the nation of Namibia. In addition to its eye-opening depictions of the starvation, disease, mass captivity, and other atrocities suffered by the Herero, it reaches surprising ...

Germany fought three major colonial wars from 1900 to 1908: the Boxer War in China, the Herero and Nama War in Southwest Africa, and the Maji Maji War in East Africa. Recently, historians have emphasized the role of German military culture in shaping the horrific violence of these conflicts, tracing a line from German atrocities in the colonial sphere to those committed by the Nazis during World War ...

Includes bibliographical references and index. 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Trading enterprise figures prominently in Indonesian history. Commercial activities penetrated deep into the economy, politics and society of the former Netherlands Indies. Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java describes this, largely forgotten, world of commerce. During the period 1800-1942 this vanished world was, however, bustling. Merchants of very different background and stature cooperated ...

Lit. opg.: p. [153]-163. - Bibliografie van Karl J. Pelzer: p. [150]-152. VII, 163 p., [35] p. pl. : tab. ; 24 cm.

"Originating in 1891 in the port city of Surabaya, the Komedie Stamboel, or Istanbul-style theater, toured colonial Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia by rail and steamship. The company performed musical versions of the Arabian Nights and European fairy tales and operas such as Sleeping Beauty and Aida, as well as Indian and Persian romances, Southeast Asian chronicles, true crime stories, and political ...

Studie van hoogleraar geschiedenis aan de George Washington University, Washington D.C. Onderzoek naar het Nederlands kolonialisme en wijze waarop deze politiek tegenover de buitenwereld werd afgeschilderd. In een poging inzicht te krijgen in de seksespecifieke aspecten van de koloniale overheersing van Nederlands Indië, worden in deze studie ook de interacties van Nederlandse en Indische vrouwen ...