German Colonialism Revisited
Title | German Colonialism Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | Nina Berman |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2014-01-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0472119125 |
The first collection of interdisciplinary and comparative studies focusing on diverse interactions among African, Asian, and Oceanic peoples and German colonizers
German Colonialism Revisited
Title | German Colonialism Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | Nina Berman |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2018-07-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0472037277 |
The first collection of interdisciplinary and comparative studies focusing on diverse interactions among African, Asian, and Oceanic peoples and German colonizers
Imperial Germany Revisited
Title | Imperial Germany Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | Sven Oliver Müller |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2011-09-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0857452878 |
The German Empire, its structure, its dynamic development between 1871 and 1918, and its legacy, have been the focus of lively international debate that is showing signs of further intensification as we approach the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. Based on recent work and scholarly arguments about continuities and discontinuities in modern German history from Bismarck to Hitler, well-known experts broadly explore four themes: the positioning of the Bismarckian Empire in the course of German history; the relationships between society, politics and culture in a period of momentous transformations; the escalation of military violence in Germany's colonies before 1914 and later in two world wars; and finally the situation of Germany within the international system as a major political and economic player. The perspectives presented in this volume have already stimulated further argument and will be of interest to anyone looking for orientation in this field of research.
Colonial Fantasies
Title | Colonial Fantasies PDF eBook |
Author | Susanne Zantop |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 1997-09-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822382113 |
Since Germany became a colonial power relatively late, postcolonial theorists and histories of colonialism have thus far paid little attention to it. Uncovering Germany’s colonial legacy and imagination, Susanne Zantop reveals the significance of colonial fantasies—a kind of colonialism without colonies—in the formation of German national identity. Through readings of historical, anthropological, literary, and popular texts, Zantop explores imaginary colonial encounters of "Germans" with "natives" in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century literature, and shows how these colonial fantasies acted as a rehearsal for actual colonial ventures in Africa, South America, and the Pacific. From as early as the sixteenth century, Germans preoccupied themselves with an imaginary drive for colonial conquest and possession that eventually grew into a collective obsession. Zantop illustrates the gendered character of Germany’s colonial imagination through critical readings of popular novels, plays, and travel literature that imagine sexual conquest and surrender in colonial territory—or love and blissful domestic relations between colonizer and colonized. She looks at scientific articles, philosophical essays, and political pamphlets that helped create a racist colonial discourse and demonstrates that from its earliest manifestations, the German colonial imagination contained ideas about a specifically German national identity, different from, if not superior to, most others.
German Colonialism
Title | German Colonialism PDF eBook |
Author | Volker Max Langbehn |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231149727 |
Mohammad Salama teaches Arabic in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at San Francisco State University. --Book Jacket.
Liberal Imperialism in Germany
Title | Liberal Imperialism in Germany PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew P. Fitzpatrick |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781845455200 |
In a work based on new archival, press, and literary sources, the author revises the picture of German imperialism as being the brainchild of a Machiavellian Bismarck or the "conservative revolutionaries" of the twentieth century. Instead, Fitzpatrick argues for the liberal origins of German imperialism, by demonstrating the links between nationalism and expansionism in a study that surveys the half century of imperialist agitation and activity leading up to the official founding of Germany's colonial empire in 1884.
Germany's Colony in China
Title | Germany's Colony in China PDF eBook |
Author | Fion Wai Ling So |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2019-01-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 131735902X |
This book explores the economic development of the northern Chinese city of Qingdao, which was held by Germany as a colony from 1898 to 1914. It focuses especially on the economic polices of the German colonial government and of the provincial government of the neighbouring Chinese province of Shandong, considering amongst other issues free trade and protection, the impact of the Gold Standard and assistance given to particular companies. The book shows how the Qingdao and Shandong economies fitted into overall East Asian and global trade patterns and how during this period these economies became more fully integrated into the world economy. The book concludes by discussing how although there was a great deal of co-operation between the Qingdao and Shandong governments, there were also growing tensions.