UID:
almafu_9959245600402883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 281 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-62780-5
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1-107-23617-7
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1-139-62791-0
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1-139-62769-4
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1-283-94301-8
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1-139-62736-8
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1-139-17592-0
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1-139-62703-1
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1-139-62725-2
Content:
This book traces the importance of the United States for German colonialism from the late eighteenth century to 1945, focusing on American westward expansion and racial politics. Jens-Uwe Guettel argues that from the late eighteenth century onward, ideas of colonial expansion played a very important role in liberal, enlightened and progressive circles in Germany, which, in turn, looked across the Atlantic to the liberal-democratic United States for inspiration and concrete examples. Yet following a pre-1914 peak of liberal political influence on the administration and governance of Germany's colonies, the expansionist ideas embraced by Germany's far-right after the country's defeat in the First World War had little or no connection with the German Empire's liberal imperialist tradition - for example, Nazi plans for the settlement of conquered Eastern European territories were not directly linked to pre-1914 transatlantic exchanges concerning race and expansionism.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction -- 1. Soil, liberty, and blood: Germans and American westward expansion before 1871 -- 2. From theory to practice: German colonialism and American westward expansion before World War I -- 3. The American South and racial segregation in the German colonies -- 4. America, race, and German expansionism from the Great War to 1945 -- Conclusion: Imperial liberalism, Nazi expansionism, and the continuities of German history.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-62261-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-02469-2
Language:
English
