The colonial past is never dead. It’s not even past: Histories of Empire, Decolonization, and European Cultures after 1945

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Entangled Objects and Hybrid Practices? Material Culture as a New Approach to the History of Diplomacy 1
4. Corals, Brass and Firearms. Material Commodities in Cultural Interactions between Edo and Portuguese in Benin around 1500 29
5. Gifts of Time: Watches and Clocks in Ottoman-British Diplomacy, 1693–1803 55
6. Peace Medal Diplomacy in Indian-White Relations in Nineteenth-Century North America 80
7. Society of the “Economic Miracle” and the Non-European World. Material Culture of State Visits during the Presidency of Theodor Heuss 100
8. Assembling Things Right. The Material Dimensions of West German Diplomacy (1950s to 1970s) 128
9. Forum
10. The colonial past is never dead. It’s not even past: Histories of Empire, Decolonization, and European Cultures after 1945 151
11. List of Contributors 175