German colonialism : race, the Holocaust, and postwar Germany
More than half a century before the mass executions of the Holocaust, Germany devastated the peoples of southwestern Africa. While colonialism might seem marginal to German history, new scholarship compares these acts to Nazi practices on the Eastern and Western fronts. With some of the most importa...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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New York : Columbia University Press,
c2011
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| Schlagworte: | Imperialism Nationalism World War, 1939-1945 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Racism Continuity Continuity - Political aspects - Germany - History |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource (xxxi, 327 p) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reconfiguring German Colonialism -Volker Langbehn and Mohammad Salama; PART I. Colonial (Dis)Continuities: Framing the Issue; 1. Borrowed Light: Nietzsche and the Colonies -Timothy Brennan; 2. German Colonialism Some Reflections on Reassessments, Specificties, and Constellations -Birthe Kundrus; PART II. Lebensraum and Genocide; 3. Against "Human Diversity as Such": Lebensraum and Genocide in the Third Reich -Shelley Baranowski; 4. Hannah Arendt, Imperialisms, and the Holocaust -A. Dirk Moses
- 5. Caesura, Continuity, and Myth: The Stakes of Tethering the Holocaust to German Colonial Theory -Kitty MilletPART III: Looking East: Poland, the Ottoman Empire, and Politicized Jihadism; 6. Germany's Adventures in the Orient: A History of Ambivalent Semicolonial Entanglements -Malte Fuhrmann; 7. Arguing the Case for a Colonial Poland -Kristin Kopp; 8. Colonialism, and No End: The Other Continuity Theses -Russell A. Berman; PART IV. Of Missionaries, Economics, andIntranational Self-Perception
- 9. The Purpose of German Colonialism,or the Long Shadow of Bismarck's Colonial Policy -Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann10. Christian Missionary Societies in the German Colonies, 1884/85-1914/15 -Ulrich van der Heyden; 11. German Colonialism and the British Neighbor in Africa Before 1914: Self-Definitions, Lines of Demarcation, and Cooperation -Ulrike Lindner; PART V. Postcolonial German Politics; 12. "Kalashnikovs, Not Coca-Cola, Bring Self-Determination to Angola": The Two Germanys, Lusophone Africa, and the Rhetoric of Colonial Difference -Luís Madureira
- 13. Germany, Palestine, Israel, and the (Post)Colonial Imagination -Martin Braach-MaksvytisContributors; Index