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The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people
from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent
has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature-not least
because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much
later than other European nations. This volume presents
intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries
while mapping continuities and ruptures in Germans' perceptions of
Blacks. Juxtaposing these intersections demonstrates that negative
German perceptions of Blackness proceeded from nineteenth-century
racial theories, and that earlier constructions of "race" were far
more differentiated. The contributors present a wide range of
Black-German encounters, from representations of Black saints in
religious medieval art to Black Hessians fighting in the American
Revolutionary War, from Cameroonian children being educated in
Germany to African American agriculturalists in Germany's
protectorate, Togoland. Each chapter probes individual and
collective responses to these intercultural points of contact.
The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people
from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent
has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature-not least
because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much
later than other European nations. This volume presents
intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries
while mapping continuities and ruptures in Germans' perceptions of
Blacks. Juxtaposing these intersections demonstrates that negative
German perceptions of Blackness proceeded from nineteenth-century
racial theories, and that earlier constructions of "race" were far
more differentiated. The contributors present a wide range of
Black-German encounters, from representations of Black saints in
religious medieval art to Black Hessians fighting in the American
Revolutionary War, from Cameroonian children being educated in
Germany to African American agriculturalists in Germany's
protectorate, Togoland. Each chapter probes individual and
collective responses to these intercultural points of contact.
Farbberatung, Form- und Stilberatung haben ebenso Einzug in die
Verkaufsbereiche gehalten wie Fragen nach der richtigen Form
(Anrede, Tischmanieren usw). Dieser erste speziell fur Verkaufer
geschriebenen "Knigge" zeigt, wie personliche Ausstrahlung und
Benimm gegenuber Kunden zum personlichen Wettbewerbsvorteil werden
und damit auch den geschaftlichen Erfolg steigern lassen."
Revolutions are not only a fascinating political and historical
phenomenon. The perception and description of revolutions also
conform to a certain linguistic and literary pattern discernible
both in historiography and political journalism. Historical novels
centring around revolutions can (also) be read as a form of
(political) historiography as they invariably engage with these
forms of representation. At the same time, however, historical
novels are literary texts and as such cast light on the linguistic
nature of historical (re)construction. A literary approach to the
epic depiction of revolution in "November 1918" lays bare these
contradictory reception alternatives, and in so doing points up the
connections between DAblin's presentation of the German November
revolution of 1918 and national and international 'revolution
(hi)stories' from a large variety of disciplines.
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