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German colonialism : race, the Holocaust, and postwar Germany / edited by Volker Langbehn and Mohammad Salama.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imperialism--Social aspects.
- History.
- Imperialism.
- Continuity.
- Nationalism.
- Racism.
- Colonies.
- Germany--Colonies--Africa--History.
- Germany.
- Africa--Colonial influence.
- Africa.
- Colonial influence.
- Racism--Germany--History.
- Racism--Africa--History.
- Nationalism--Germany--History.
- Continuity--Political aspects--Germany--History.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Atrocities.
- Germany--History--1945-.
- Imperialism--Social aspects--Germany--History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 327 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Reconfiguring German colonialism / Volker Langbehn and Mohammad Salama
- pt. 1. Colonial (dis)continuities : framing the issue
- Borrowed light : Nietzsche and the colonies / Timothy Brennan
- German colonialism : some reflections on reassessments, specificities, and constellations / Birthe Kundrus
- pt. 2. Lebensraum and genocide
- Against "human diversity as such" : Lebensraum and genocide in the Third Reich / Shelley Baranowski
- Hannah Arendt, imperialisms, and the Holocaust / A. Dirk Moses
- Caesura, continuity, and myth : the stakes of tethering the Holocaust to German colonial theory / Kitty Millet
- pt. 3. Looking East : Poland, the Ottoman Empire, and politicized Jihadism
- Germany's adventures in the Orient : a history of ambivalent semicolonial entanglements / Malte Fuhrmann
- Arguing the case for a colonial Poland / Kristin Kopp
- Colonialism, and no end : the other continuity theses / Russell A. Berman
- pt. 4. Of Missionaries, Economics, and Intranational Self-Perception
- The purpose of German colonialism, or, The long shadow of Bismarck's colonial policy / Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann
- Christian missionary societies in the German colonies, 1884/85-1914/15 / Ulrich van der Heyden
- German colonialism and the British neighbor in Africa before 1914 : self-definitions, lines of demarcation, and cooperation / Ulrike Lindner
- pt. 5. Postcolonial German politics
- "Kalashnikovs, not Coca-Cola, bring self-determination to Angola" : the two Germanys, Lusophone Africa, and the rhetoric of colonial difference / Luis Madureira
- Germany, Palestine, Israel, and the (post)colonial imagination / Martin Braach-Maksvytis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231149723
- 0231149727
- 9780231149730
- 0231149735
- 9780231520546
- 0231520549
- OCLC:
- 635463883
- Publisher Number:
- 99943002321
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