Overview
- Summary
- Germany was a latecomer to the colonial world of the late nineteenth century but this history of German colonialism makes clear the wide-reaching consequences of Germany's short-lived colonial project. Sebastian Conrad charts the expansion of the empire from its origins in the acquisition of substantial territories in present day Togo, Cameroon, Namibia and Tanzania to new settlements in East Asia and the Pacific and reveals the colonialist culture which permeated the German nation and its politics. Drawing on the wider history of European expansion and globalisation he highlights the close interactions and shared vocabularies of the colonial powers and emphasizes Germany's major role in the period of high imperialism before 1914. Even beyond the official end of the empire in 1919 the quest for Lebensraum and the growth of the Nazi empire in Eastern Europe can be viewed within a framework of colonialism whose effects resonate to the present day.
- Uniform Title
- Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte. English
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2012]
©2012 - Locale
- Germany
- Edition
- English edition
- Contents
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Introduction
Colonialism before colonial empire
Pressure groups, motivations, attitudes
The German colonial empire
The colonial state
Economy and work
Colonial society
Knowledge and colonialism
The colonial metropole
Colonialism in Europe
German colonialism and its global contexts
Memory
Selected readings. - Notes
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"Originally published in German as Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte by Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, Munchen 2008"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Colonialism before colonial empire -- Pressure groups, motivations, attitudes -- The German colonial empire -- The colonial state -- Economy and work -- Colonial society -- Knowledge and colonialism -- The colonial metropole -- Colonialism in Europe -- German colonialism and its global contexts -- Memory -- Selected readings.
Translated from the German.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781107008144
110700814X
9781107400474
1107400473 - Physical Description
- xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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