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Rainer Buschmann on Colonialism & Hoarding
Rainer F. Buschmann is a professor of history at California State University, Channel Islands, and has just published "Hoarding New Guinea," about the German obsession for collecting through their Pacific imperialist years in 1880s to World War I.
We talked about the European and U.S. desires for overseas empires, and the subsequent carving up large swathes of the globe. The Germans helped themselves to Namibia, Togo, Cameroon, Ghana, Burundi, Rwanda in Africa as well as large portions of New Guinea and the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific. From the beginning, the Germans amassed huge…
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