Book of Donmon Teith

A path-breaking study of national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a controversial German expedition to British India.

Worldly Provincialism introduces readers to German anthropology during the age of empire and illustrates how the initial motives and interests that gave birth t

Establishing the context within which organizers who staged spectacular popular science exhibitions for urban middle-class audiences and the physicians as well

The focus of this volume is the history of imperial science between 1600 and 1960, although some essays reach back prior to 1600 and the section about decoloniz

In the late nineteenth century, Germans spearheaded a worldwide effort to preserve the material traces of humanity, designing major ethnographic museums and bui