German and United States colonialism in a connected world : entangled empires
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise For German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: Relational Empires -- American Danger -- Relational Field -- Part I Portabilities -- 2 Seapower and Frontier Settlement: Friedri...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,
[2021]
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies
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| Schlagworte: | Imperialism Electronic books Deutschland USA Kolonialismus Geschichte 1820-1945 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 319 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise For German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: Relational Empires -- American Danger -- Relational Field -- Part I Portabilities -- 2 Seapower and Frontier Settlement: Friedrich List's American Vision for Germany -- The Swabian Reformer and the American Exile -- Liberal Imperialism, Colonialism, Navalism -- A German Settlement Frontier in the Southeast -- Conclusion -- 3 The Fantasy of Open Space on the Frontier: Max Sering from the Great Plains to Eastern Europe -- Experiencing Frontiers -- Homesteads for Germany: Inner Colonization, 1886 to 1914 -- The Creation of Open Frontier: Germany Conquers the East, 1914-1918 -- The Legacy of an Eastern Frontier: Sering in the Weimar Years, and the Nadir of Nazi Empire -- Conclusion -- 4 The Role of US Railroads in the German Expansionist Mindset of Gerhard Rohlfs -- Gerhard Rohlfs and German Africa-Explorers -- The Greatest Manifestation of Industrialized Technology: The Railway in the US and Western Europe -- Locomotive Narration in Africa Without a Railroad -- A Railway to Central Africa: The US Railroads as the Key to German Self-Confidence -- Conclusion -- 5 Between France, Germany, and the United States: Raymond Aron as a Critical Theorist of Colonialism and Empire -- Biographical Notes on Aron -- On Nazi Imperialism -- On French Colonialism and Decolonization -- On the United States as Rising and Declining Empire -- Conclusion: Aron's World of Empires -- Part II Passages -- 6 "A Truly Exquisite Little Phrase:" Global Colonialist Visions vs. The "Drang nach Osten" -- Eastern and Western Dreams, 1815 and 1871 -- European or Global Expansion, 1871-1914 -- From Colonization Schemes to Total Destruction: Eastern Expansionism Between 1914 and 1945 -- Conclusion. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 319 Seiten) Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9783030532062 3030532062 9783030532055 3030532054 |