Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements - 9780367421595

Taylor & Francis

Remembering German-Australian Colonial EntanglementsAuthor(s): Lars Eckstein, Andrew Wright Hurley\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367421595, 978-0367421595\nSynopsis\nRemembering German- Australian Colonial Entanglements emphatically promotes a critical and nuanced understanding of the complex entanglement of German colonial actors and activities within Australian colonial institutions and different imperial ideologies.\n\nCase studies ranging from the German reception of James Cooks voyages through to the legacies of 19th- and 20th- century settler colonialism foreground the highly ambiguous roles played by explorers, missionaries, intellectuals and other individuals, as well as by objects and things that travelled between worlds ancestral human remains, rare animal skins, songs and even military tanks. The chapters foreground the complex relationship between science, religion, art and exploitation, displacem.