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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Which Past, Whose Past? -- Blind-spot Colonialism -- New Agenda-old Blinkers -- One's Own And Others' Past -- Beyond Tokenism? -- 2. Enlightenment, Racism, Colonialism And Genocide -- The Dark Side Of Enlightenment -- Colonial Mass Violence And The Notion Of Genocide -- Towards Decolonisation -- 3. The German Colonial Brand -- Germany Goes Overseas -- The German Colonies -- Some Colonial Leftovers -- Colonial Discourses At Home -- Colonialism Without Colonies -- Africans In Colonial Germany 4. (post-)colonial (west) Germany -- West German Africa -- Colonial Remnants In United Germany -- Black Germany -- Reactionary Revisionism: The Case Of The Afd -- Light At The End Of The Tunnel? -- 5. Germany And Namibia -- An Initial Caveat -- The Historical Record -- A German Sonderweg? -- The Long Denial -- The Return Of Human Remains And Looted Artefacts -- Negotiating Genocide -- The Joint Declaration And Its Aftermath -- Reparations And Intertemporality -- Namibian Disagreements -- Ploughing Through -- No End In Sight -- 6. Challenging Colonial Asymmetries And Blind Spots Selective Memory -- Learning From The Past -- The Coloniality Of Power -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover Electronic Reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mi Available Via World Wide Web.