Britta Schilling, Postcolonial Germany: Memories of Empire in a Decolonized Nation

“How should a nation deal with its imperial and colonial heritage?” (1) is the question that opens Postcolonial Germany. In the book, the author analyzes how Germany has shaped and transmitted its own national memory of colonialism from 1919 to 1990, both at a public and private level, and how this...

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Vydáno v:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/temoigner,
Hlavní autor: Romeo, Caterina
Médium: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: Témoigner. Entre histoire et mémoire 2022
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Shrnutí:“How should a nation deal with its imperial and colonial heritage?” (1) is the question that opens Postcolonial Germany. In the book, the author analyzes how Germany has shaped and transmitted its own national memory of colonialism from 1919 to 1990, both at a public and private level, and how this memory has intersected with other important events and factors in German history and culture.From 1884-1885 up until 1919, Germany held colonial possessions in China and in the Pacific (these terr...