Germans, Poland, and Colonial Expansion to the East

This volume presents a multifaceted study of Germany's engagement with Eastern Europe throughout the period of worldwide 'new imperialism' and expands scholarly notions of 'colonialism.'.

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Group Author: Nelson, Robert L.
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Studies in European culture and history.
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230618541
Summary: This volume presents a multifaceted study of Germany's engagement with Eastern Europe throughout the period of worldwide 'new imperialism' and expands scholarly notions of 'colonialism.'.
"The first volume devoted exclusively to German 'inner colonialism' from the Polish frontier in the 1850s until the present day, these interdisciplinary essays are a signal contribution to scholarship on German continental empires, including the 'Third Reich.'" - A. Dirk Moses, University of Sydney "For a while now, German historians have been remarking upon the congruencies and complicated reciprocities between Germany's imperialist designs on Eastern Europe during the two world wars and the earlier history of overseas colonialism before 1914. Delivering historical depth, focus, and conceptual coherence, this fine collection of essays now gives chapter and verse for that claim. Nelson and his contributors match a challenging general argument about the nature of colonialism to a series of admirably persuasive case studies." - Geoff Eley, Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History and Chair, Department of History, University of Michigan.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2009.
Carrier Form: 224 p.
ISBN: 9780230612686
9780230618541 :
0230618545 :
CLC: K505
Contents: Reinventing Poland as German Colonial Territory in the Nineteenth Century: Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben as Colonial Novel - Kristin Kopp * The Prussian Settlement Commission and its Activities in the Land Market, 1886-1918 - Scott M. Eddie * The Archive for Inner Colonization, the German East, and World War - Robert L. Nelson * Putting the East in Order: German Historians and their Attempts to Rationalize German Eastward Expansion during the 1930s and 1940s - Eduard Muhle * The Languages of Occupation: Vocabularies of German Rule in Eastern Europe in the World Wars - Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius * The Conquest of Nature and the Mystique of the Eastern Frontier in Nazi Germany - David Blackbourn * The Threatening Other in the East: Continuities and Discontinuities in Modern German-Polish Relations - Oliver Schmidtke.