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Author Bowersox, Jeff, author.

Title Raising Germans in the age of empire : youth and colonial culture, 1871-1914 / Jeff Bowersox
Published Corby : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Contents Cover; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Grappling with Empire; 1 Playing Empire: Toys, Games, and the German Colonial Imaginary; 2 Studying Empire: Classroom Instruction, School Geographers, and Pedagogical Reform; 3 Seeing Empire: Colonialist Expertise and Spectacular Lessons Outside the Classroom; 4 Reading Empire: Politics, Gender, Confession, and Class in Commercial Youth Literature; 5 Living Empire: The Pathfinders and Conflicts between Patriotism and Pedagogy; Conclusion: Growing Up with Empire; Select Bibliography
Picture AcknowledgementsIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary This book is a cultural history of the German colonial imagination around the turn of the twentieth century. Looking beyond the colonialist movement, it focuses on young Germans who grew up during this era and the various commercial and educational media through which they daily encountered the wider world. Using their imaginary colonial encounters, Jeff Bowersox explores how Germans young and old came to terms with a globalizing world. Chapters on toys, school instruction, popular literature, and the Boy Scouts (or Pfadfinder) reveal how Germans, through mass consumer culture and mass education, built a definitive association between colonial hierarchies and Germany's place in the modern age. By 1914 this colonial sensibility had been accepted as common sense, but it always remained flexible and vague. It could be adapted to serve competing and contradictory purposes, ranging from profit and pedagogical reform to nationalist mobilization and international socialist solidarity
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Subject Imperialism in popular culture -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
Imperialism in popular culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Youth -- Germany -- Attitudes -- History -- 19th century
Youth -- Germany -- Attitudes -- History -- 20th century
Education and state -- Germany -- History
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Education and state
Imperialism in popular culture
Social conditions
Youth -- Attitudes
SUBJECT Germany -- Social conditions -- 1871-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054656
Subject Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191636929
0191636924