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 Sherman Library  JV2017 .C6613 2012    AVAILABLE  
Author Conrad, Sebastian.
Title German colonialism : a short history / Sebastian Conrad ; translated by Sorcha O'Hagan.
Edition English edition.
OCLC 731372985
ISBN 9781107008144
110700814X
9781107400474 (pbk.)
1107400473 (pbk.)
Publisher Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2012]
©2012
Description xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
LC Subject heading/s Germany -- Colonies -- History.
Germany -- Foreign relations -- 1871-1918.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Colonialism before colonial empires -- 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 -- Colonial globality -- Memory -- Selected readings.
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 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.
General note "Originally published in German as Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte by Verlag C. H. Beck oHG, Munchen 2008"--T.p. verso.
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