Author: Zantop, Susanne
Title: Colonial Fantasies: Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870
Description: Durham [NC], Duke University Press, 1997. orig.cloth. 23x16cm, x, 292 pp. Textual illustrations. Minor rubbing. A small ink mark to top page-edge. VG. ¶ Contents: Armchair Conquistadors; The Quest for 'New Germany'; 'Tiranos animales o alemanes': Germans and the 'Conquest'; A Conquest of the Intellect; Colonizing Theory: Gender, Race, and the Search for a National Identity; Gendering the 'Conquest'; Racializing the Colony; Patagons and the Germans; Colonial Families; or, Displacing the Colonizers; Fathers and Sons: Donnerstag and Freitag, Campe and Krusoe; Husbands and Wives: Colonialism Domesticated; Betrothal and Divorce; or, Revolution in the House; Virgin Islands, Teuton Conquerors; The German Columbus; The Second Discovery; Colonial Fantasies Revisited; Epilogue: Vitzputzli's Revenge.

Keywords: German Cultural History, Germany, South America, Colonial Colonies, Social Sociology, Colonialism Nation, National Family, Nationalism, Anthropology