Colonial fantasies, imperial realities : race science and the making of Polishness on the fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920 / Lenny A. Ureña Valerio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ureña Valerio, Lenny A., 1977- author.

Series:

Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series.

Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polish people--Germany--History.

Polish people.

Imperialism--Social aspects--Germany--History.

Imperialism.

Physical anthropology--Germany--History.

Physical anthropology.

Racism in anthropology--Germany--History.

Racism in anthropology.

Racism in medicine--Germany--History.

Racism in medicine.

Germany--Relations--Poland.

Germany.

Poland--Relations--Germany.

Poland.

Germany--Ethnic relations--History.

Germany--Race relations--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 295 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities, Lenny Ureña Valerio offers a transnational approach to Polish-German relations and nineteenth-century colonial subjectivities. She investigates key cultural dynamics in the history of medicine, colonialism, and migration that bring Germany and Prussian Poland closer to the colonial and postcolonial worlds in Africa and Latin America. She also analyzes how Poles in the German Empire positioned themselves in relation to Germans and native populations in overseas colonies. She thus recasts Polish perspectives and experiences, allowing new insights into identity formation and nationalist movements within the German Empire. Crucially, Ureña Valerio also studies the medical projects and scientific ideas that traveled from colonies to the German metropole, and vice versa, which were influential not only in the racialization of Slavic populations, but also in bringing scientific conceptions of race to the everydayness of the German Empire. As a whole, Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities illuminates nested imperial and colonial relations using sources that range from medical texts and state documents to travel literature and fiction. By studying these scientific and political debates, Ureña Valerio uncovers novel ways to connect medicine, migration, and colonialism and provides an invigorating model for the analysis of Polish history from a global perspective"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

On the fringes of imperial formations : the German civilizing mission in the Prussian-Polish provinces

Disease, race, and space

Intersecting roads : the medical and colonizing missions in German Africa

"For your freedom and ours" : Polish travel accounts and colonial fantasies in Africa

Creating the Polish nation abroad : the establishment of Polish colonies in Brazil.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-288) and index.

ISBN:

9780821446638

0821446630