Journal of Global History

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The devil’s handwriting: precoloniality and the German colonial state in Quindao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa

By George Steinmetz. Chicago studies in practices of meaning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xxviii + 640.78 b/w illustrations, 6 maps, 3 line drawings. Hardback US$90.00, ISBN 9780226772417; paperback US$33.00, ISBN 9780226772431

Gesine Krügera1

a1 Department of History, Universität Zürich, Switzerland E-mail: g.krueger@access.uzh.ch