Frontiers of empire : Max Sering, inner colonization, and the German east, 1871-1945 / Robert L. Nelson, University of Windsor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Robert L., 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Settler colonialism--Germany--History.

Settler colonialism.

Germany--Foreign relations--Europe, Eastern.

Germany.

Europe, Eastern--Foreign relations--Germany.

Europe, Eastern.

Germany--Foreign relations--1871-.

Germany--Politics and government--1871-.

Sering, Max, 1857-1939--Influence.

Sering, Max.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"How did the homesteads and reservations of the Prairies of Western North America influence German colonization, ethnic cleansing and genocide in Eastern Europe? Max Sering, a world-famous agrarian settlement expert, stood on the Great Plains in 1883 and saw Germany's future in Eastern Europe: a grand scheme of frontier settlement. Sering was a key figure in the evolution of Germany's relationship with its eastern frontier, as well as in the overall transformation of the German Right from the Bismarckian 1880s to the Hitlerian 1930s. 'Inner colonization' was the settlement of farmers in threatened borderland areas within the nation's boundaries. Focusing on this phenomenon, Frontiers of Empire complicates the standard thesis of separation between the colonizing country and the colonized space, and blurs the typical boundaries between colonizer and colonized subjects"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Settler colonialism and how to tell a story : inner settler colonialism and biography

The frontiers of youth : Kaiserreich, part one

Career beginnings, Eastern interests : Kaiserreich, part two (1883-1897)

Settling in : Kaiserreich, part three (1897-1914)

The radicalization of inner colonization : the First World War, 1914-1918

Sering the star : the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933

Sering's journey comes to an end : the Third Reich, 1933-1939

The legacy of Max Sering and inner colonization : the Second World War and its aftermath

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2024).

ISBN:

9781009235419

1009235419

9781009235396

1009235397

9781009235402

1009235400