{"product_id":"german-colonialism-in-africa-and-its-legacies-9781350326163","title":"German Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eItohan Osayimwese \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of History of Art \u0026amp; Architecture at Brown University, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGerman Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies\u003c\/i\u003e provides welcome histories of German colonial art, architecture and visual culture while offering ground-breaking analyses of how contemporary and historic African and German stakeholders used such materials to forward their own agendas. * Steven Nelson, Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis book produces a unique and highly informative understanding of the relationship between colonial architecture and urbanism. It persuasively demonstrates how architecture and the visual arts in Germany relied on the innate relationship between architecture, space, and race at the intersection of politics and economics. * -\tVolker Langbehn, Professor of German in the Department of Modern Languages and Literature, San Francisco State University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments  Introduction: Seeing and Building German Colonialism - \u003ci\u003eItohan Osayimwese\u003c\/i\u003e  1. From Travel to Colonialism: Art and the German Colonies - \u003ci\u003eItohan Osayimwese\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Water, its Presence and Absence in Settlements and Placemaking in Colonial Namibia - \u003ci\u003eWalter Peters\u003c\/i\u003e 3. A Spatial Writing of the Earth: The Design of Colonial Territory in South-West Africa - \u003ci\u003eHollyamber Kennedy\u003c\/i\u003e 4. The Palace of King Njoya: Responding to Colonial Architecture - \u003ci\u003eMark Dike DeLancey\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Namibia’s Anti-Colonial Hero Hendrik Witbooi: Reflections from the Visual Arts - \u003ci\u003eFabian Lehmann\u003c\/i\u003e 6. On Mwangi Hutter’s Postcolonialism(s):  From “Static Drift” to “One Ground” - \u003ci\u003eBrett M. Van Hoesen\u003c\/i\u003e  Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407535841623,"sku":"9781350326163","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/german-colonialism-in-africa-and-its-legacies-9781350326163","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}