Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xxv
6. Abbreviations xxix
7. Chapter 1. Introduction: Ethnography and the Colonial State 1
8. PART ONE: SOUTHWEST AFRICA
9. Chapter 2. “A World Composed almost Entirely of Contradictions”: Southwest Africans in German Eyes, before Colonialism 75
10. Chapter 3. From Native Policy to Genocide to Eugenics: German Southwest Africa 135
11. PART TWO: SAMOA
12. Chapter 4. “A Foreign Race That All Travelers Have Agreed to be the Most Engaging”: The Creation of the Samoan Noble Savage, by Way of Tahiti 243
13. Chapter 5. “The Spirit of the German Nation at Work in the Antipodes”: German Colonialism in Samoa, 1900–1914 317
14. PART THREE. CHINA
15. Chapter 6. The Foreign Devil’s Handwriting: German Views of China before “Kiautschou” 361
16. Chapter 7. A Pact with the (Foreign) Devil: Qingdao as a Colony 433
17. Chapter 8. Conclusion: Colonial Afterlives 509
18. Appendix 1: A Note on Sources and Procedures 519
19. Appendix 2: Head Administrators of German Southwest Africa, Samoa, and Kiaochow 525
20. Bibliography 527
21. Index 605