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The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)
Sara Friedrichsmeyer (Ed.)
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Description for The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)
Paperback. The first anthology of essays to address colonial and postcolonial issues in German history, culture, and literature Editor(s): Friedrichsmeyer, Sara; Lennox, Sara; Zantop, Susanne. Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBTB; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
Race relations" are a controversial topic in today's Germany. Have Germans learned from the past? How far back must one go to understand the tensions, prejudices, and strategies that have marked race relations in the recently unified nation? The Imperialist Imagination explores the German preoccupation with racial and ethnic differences throughout the past two centuries, in a colonial and "postcolonial" context.
Germany's belated national unification in 1870, its short colonial period (1884-1918), and the loss of its colonies as a consequence of World War I, rather than through wars of liberation, generated very different colonial and postcolonial conditions from ... Read more
Race relations" are a controversial topic in today's Germany. Have Germans learned from the past? How far back must one go to understand the tensions, prejudices, and strategies that have marked race relations in the recently unified nation? The Imperialist Imagination explores the German preoccupation with racial and ethnic differences throughout the past two centuries, in a colonial and "postcolonial" context.
Germany's belated national unification in 1870, its short colonial period (1884-1918), and the loss of its colonies as a consequence of World War I, rather than through wars of liberation, generated very different colonial and postcolonial conditions from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472066827
SKU
V9780472066827
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About Sara Friedrichsmeyer (Ed.)
Sara Friedrichsmeyer is Professor of German, University of Cincinnati. Sara Lennox is Professor of German, University of Massachusetts. Susanne Zantop is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College.
Reviews for The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)
This book is the first to bring together scholars in various disciplines who work on German colonialism and postcolonial racial issues, and it is a vital contribution to German studies."
Lora Wildenthal, Texas A&M University, American Historical Review, December 2000
Lora Wildenthal, Texas A&M University, American Historical Review, December 2000