German colonialism : a short history
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German colonialism : a short history
Cambridge University Press, 2012
- : hard
- : pbk
- Other Title
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Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Originally published in German as Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte by Verlag C. H. Beck oHG, Munich 2008"--T.p. verso
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 emphasises 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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Colonialism before the colonial empire
- 3. Pressure groups, motivations, attitudes
- 4. The German colonial empire
- 5. The colonial state
- 6. Economy and work
- 7. Colonial society
- 8. Knowledge and colonialism
- 9. The colonial metropole
- 10. Colonialism in Europe
- 11. German colonialism and its global contexts
- 12. Memory
- 13. Selected readings.
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