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Introduction: Picturing race : visuality and German colonialism / Volker Langbehn -- German colonialism, 1884-1919 -- Advertising and the optics of colonial power at the Fin de Siècle / David Ciarlo -- "... Will try to send you the best views from here" : postcards from the colonial war in Namibia (1904-1908) / Felix Axster -- Harmless "Kolonialbiedermeier"? : colonial and exotic trading cards / Joachim Zeller -- Cakewalking the anarchy of empire around 1900 / Astrid Kusser -- Satire magazines and racial politics / Volker Langbehn -- Demystifying colonial settlement : building handbooks for settlers, 1904-1930 / Itohan Osayimwese -- Patriotism, spectacle, and reverie : colonialism in early cinema / Wolfgang Fuhrmann -- German postcolonialism, 1919-present -- Persuasive maps and a suggestive novel : Hans Grimm's Volk ohne Raum and German cartography in southwest Africa / Oliver Simons -- Colonial disgust : the colonial master's emotion of superiority / Thomas Schwarz -- Weimar revisions of Germany's colonial past : the photomontages of Hannah Höch and László Moholy-Nagy / Brett M. Van Hoesen -- The "colonial idea" in Weimar cinema / Christian Rogowski -- "The Black Jew" : an after-image of German colonialism / Birgit Haehnel -- Reenacting colonialism : Germany and its former colonies in recent TV productions / Wolfgang Struck -- Postcolonial amnesia : taboo memories and Kanaks with cameras / Deniz Göktürk

Introduction: Reconfiguring German colonialism / Volker Langbehn and Mohammad Salama -- pt. 1. Colonial (dis)continuities : framing the issue -- Borrowed light : Nietzsche and the colonies / Timothy Brennan -- German colonialism : some reflections on reassessments, specificities, and constellations / Birthe Kundrus -- pt. 2. Lebensraum and genocide -- Against "human diversity as such" : Lebensraum and genocide in the Third Reich / Shelley Baranowski -- Hannah Arendt, imperialisms, and the Holocaust / A. Dirk Moses -- Caesura, continuity, and myth : the stakes of tethering the Holocaust to German colonial theory / Kitty Millet -- pt. 3. Looking East : Poland, the Ottoman Empire, and politicized Jihadism -- Germany's adventures in the Orient : a history of ambivalent semicolonial entanglements / Malte Fuhrmann -- Arguing the case for a colonial Poland / Kristin Kopp -- Colonialism, and no end : the other continuity theses / Russell A. Berman -- pt. 4. Of Missionaries, Economics, and Intranational Self-Perception -- The purpose of German colonialism, or, The long shadow of Bismarck's colonial policy / Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann -- Christian missionary societies in the German colonies, 1884/85-1914/15 / Ulrich van der Heyden -- German colonialism and the British neighbor in Africa before 1914 : self-definitions, lines of demarcation, and cooperation / Ulrike Lindner -- pt. 5. Postcolonial German politics -- "Kalashnikovs, not Coca-Cola, bring self-determination to Angola" : the two Germanys, Lusophone Africa, and the rhetoric of colonial difference / Luis Madureira -- Germany, Palestine, Israel, and the (post)colonial imagination / Martin Braach-Maksvytis.