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At the end of the nineteenth century, Germany turned toward colonialism, establishing protectorates in Africa, and toward a mass consumer society, mapping the meaning of commodities through advertising. These developments, distinct in the world of political economy, were intertwined in the world of visual culture.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction · German Colonialism Made Simple -- One · Empire by Land or Sea? -- Two · Scientific Autonomy and Empire, 1880-1945 -- Three · Science and Civilizing Missions -- Four · Ruling Africa -- Five · Who Is Master in the Colony? -- Six · A New Imperial Vision? -- Seven · Experts, Migrants, Refugees -- Eight · Classroom Colonialism -- Nine · Mass- Marketing the Empire -- Ten · Colonialism, War, and the German Working Class -- Eleven · Colonialism and the Anti- Semitic Movement in Imperial Germany -- Twelve · Internal Colonialism in Germany -- Thirteen · Pan- German Conceptions of Colonial Empire -- Fourteen · Maritime Force and the Limits of Empire -- Fifteen · The Rhineland Controversy and Weimar Postcolonialism -- Sixteen · Colonialism, Imperialism, National Socialism -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Reprint Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Work of Vision in the Age of European Empires -- Section I: The Imperial Optic -- Introduction -- PART 1: EMPIRES OF THE PALETTE -- CHAPTER 1. The Walls of Images -- CHAPTER 2. Painting as Exploration: Visualizing Nature in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Science -- CHAPTER 3. Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette -- CHAPTER 4. Colonial Panaromania -- PART 2: THE MASS-PRINTED IMPERIUM -- CHAPTER 5. Objects of Knowledge: Oceanic Artifacts in European Engravings -- CHAPTER 6. Excess in the City? The Consumption of Imported Prints in Colonial Calcutta, c. 1780-c. 1795 -- CHAPTER 7. Advertising and the Optics of Colonial Power at the Fin de Siècle -- PART 3: MAPPING, CLAIMING, RECLAIMING -- CHAPTER 8. Mapping Plus Ultra: Cartography, Space, and Hispanic Modernity -- CHAPTER 9. Mapping an Exotic World: The Global Project of Dutch Cartography, circa 1700 -- CHAPTER 10. Visual Regimes of Colonization: European and Aboriginal Seeing in Australia -- PART 4: THE IMPERIAL LENS -- CHAPTER 11. The Photography Complex: Exposing Boxer-Era China (1900-1901), Making Civilization -- CHAPTER 12. Colonial Theaters of Proof: Representation and Laughter in 1930s Rockefeller Foundation Hygiene Cinema in Java -- CHAPTER 13. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema -- Section II: Postcolonial Looking -- Introduction -- PART 5: SUBALTERN SEEING: AN OVERLAP OF COMPLEXITIES -- CHAPTER 14. Speaking Back to Orientalist Discourse -- CHAPTER 15. Maps, Mother/Goddesses, and Martyrdom in Modern India -- CHAPTER 16. Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism -- CHAPTER 17. "I Am Rendered Speechless by Your Idea of Beauty": The Picturesque in History and Art in the Postcolony -- CHAPTER 18. Fanon, Algeria, and the Cinema: The Politics of Identification -- PART 6: REGARDING AND RECONSTITUTING EUROPE -- CHAPTER 19. Creole Europe: The Reflection of a Reflection -- CHAPTER 20. Picasso, Africa, and the Schemata of Difference -- CHAPTER 21. Double Dutch and the Culture Game -- Conclusion: A Parting Glance: Empire and Visuality -- Contributors -- Index