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German Colonialism in a Global Age
Contributor(s): Naranch, Bradley (Editor)
ISBN: 0822357119     ISBN-13: 9780822357117
Publisher: Duke University Press
OUR PRICE:   $113.95  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Germany
- History | Modern - 20th Century
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
Dewey: 325.343
LCCN: 2014024285
Series: Politics, History, and Culture
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.55 lbs) 432 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Germany
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the German colonial empire and its significance. Leading scholars show not only how the colonies influenced metropolitan life and the character of German politics during the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine eras (1871-1918), but also how colonial mentalities and practices shaped later histories during the Nazi era. In introductory essays, editors Geoff Eley and Bradley Naranch survey the historiography and broad developments in the imperial imaginary of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors then examine a range of topics, from science and the colonial state to the disciplinary constructions of Africans as colonial subjects for German administrative control. They consider the influence of imperialism on German society and culture via the mass-marketing of imperial imagery; conceptions of racial superiority in German pedagogy; and the influence of colonialism on German anti-Semitism. The collection concludes with several essays that address geopolitics and the broader impact of the German imperial experience.

Contributors. Dirk Bönker, Jeff Bowersox, David Ciarlo, Sebastian Conrad, Christian S. Davis, Geoff Eley, Jennifer Jenkins, Birthe Kundus, Klaus Mühlhahn, Bradley Naranch, Deborah Neill, Heike Schmidt, J. P. Short, George Steinmetz, Dennis Sweeney, Brett M. Van Hoesen, Andrew Zimmerman