Description |
1 online resource (xx, 319 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series |
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Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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Contents |
Introduction: Relational empires / Janne Lahti -- Part I. Portabilities -- Seapower and frontier settlement: Friedrich List’s American vision for Germany / Gregor Thum -- The fantasy of open space on the frontier: Max Sering from the Great Plains to Eastern Europe / Robert L. Nelson -- The role of US railroads in the German expansionist mindset of Gerhard Rohlfs / Tracey Reimann-Dawe -- Between France, Germany, and the United States: Raymond Aron as a critical theorist of colonialism and empire / George Steinmetz -- Part II. Passages -- “A truly exquisite little phrase:” global colonialist visions vs. the “Drang nach Osten” / Jens-Uwe Guettel -- Ruling classes and serving races: German policies on land, labor, and migration in trans-imperial perspective / Dörte Lerp -- How the Südwest was won: transnational currents of American agriculture and land colonization in German Southwest Africa / Jeannette Eileen Jones -- Practicing empire: Germany’s colonial visions in the Pacific Northwest / Eriks Bredovskis -- Part III. Parallels -- Similarity in appearance—“Chinaman” in German and American satire magazines around 1900 / Volker M. Langbehn -- “I almost pulled her to my heart, but...” competing masculinities in Karl May’s wild West fictions and their modern theatrical adaptations / A. Dana Weber -- In Service of empires: Apaches and Askaris as colonial soldiers / Janne Lahti and Michelle R. Moyd -- Words and wars of conquest: the rhetoric of annihilation in the American West and the Nazi East / Edward B. Westermann -- Part IV. Afterwords -- Empires of comparison / Andrew Zimmerman -- Settler colonialism and financial imperialism: the German and United States empires in a global age / Sebastian Conrad |
Summary |
"This book contributes to global history by examining the connected histories of German and United States colonial empires from the early nineteenth century to the Nazi era. It looks at multiple and multidirectional flows, transfers, and circulations of ideas, people, and practices as Germany and the US were embedded in, and created by, an interconnected world of empires. This relationship was not exceptional, but emblematic of the diverse entanglements that created colonial globality. Colonial entanglements between Germany and the United States took on many forms, but these shared and intersecting histories have been underanalyzed. Traditionally, Germany and the United States have been understood to have taken, respectively, an authoritarian and liberal path into modernity. But there is no neat dichotomy, as the contributors to this book illustrate. There are many more similarities than have previously been appreciated and they are the result of multilayered entanglements made visible via conquest, settler societies, racialization, and rule of difference. Building on present historiographies of empires, colonialism, and globalization, this book introduces new analytical possibilities for examining these two relatively understudied empires alongside each other, as well as at their intersections.-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 08, 2021) |
Subject |
Imperialism.
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Diplomatic relations
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German colonies
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Imperialism
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SUBJECT |
Germany -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
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Germany -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
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Germany -- Foreign relations -- United States
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Germany
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United States -- Territories and possessions -- History -- 19th century
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United States -- Territories and possessions -- History -- 20th century
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Germany -- Foreign relations -- 19th century
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Germany -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054517
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008003015
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140089
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Subject |
Germany
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United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Lahti, Janne, editor.
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ISBN |
9783030532062 |
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3030532062 |
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