Author

Publication

2015 - Berghahn Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

63,000 words, Guess

Page Count

252 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781782386544
  • ISBN-139781782386551
  • ISBN-101782386548
  • ISBN-101782386556
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014033563
and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number896861728
  • Better World Books9781782386551
  • Better World Books9781782386544
  • Open LibraryOL31040744M

Classifications

  • DDC305.897/043
  • LCCDD256.6 .U72 2015
  • LCCDD256.6.U72 2015

Description

"Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Germans exhibited a widespread cultural passion for tales and representations of Native Americans. This book explores the evolution of German national identity and its relationship with the ideas and cultural practices around 'Indianthusiasm.' Pervasive and adaptable, imagery of Native Americans was appropriated by Nazi propaganda and merged with exceptionalist notions of German tribalism, oxymoronically promoting the Nazis' racial ideology. This book combines cultural and intellectual history to scrutinize the motifs of Native American imagery in German literature, media, and scholarship, and analyzes how these motifs facilitated the propaganda effort to nurture national pride, racial thought, militarism, and hatred against the Allied powers among the German populace"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Studies in German history -- volume 19

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