German Colonialism A Short History

Name: German Colonialism A Short History
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ISBN: 9781107400474

ISBN-10: 1107400473

ISBN-13: 9781107400474

Edition: 2011

Authors: Sebastian Conrad, Sorcha O'Hagan

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Germany was a latecomer to the colonial world of the late nineteenth century but this history of German colonialism makes clear the wide-reaching consequences of Germany's short-lived colonial project. Sebastian Conrad charts the expansion of the empire from its origins in the acquisition of substantial territories in present day Togo, Cameroon, Namibia and Tanzania to new settlements in East Asia and the Pacific and reveals the colonialist culture which permeated the German nation and its politics. Drawing on the wider history of European expansion and globalisation he highlights the close interactions and shared vocabularies of the colonial powers and emphasises Germany's major role in…

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List price: $43.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/17/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 246
Size: 5.39" wide x 8.39" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.748

Sebastian Conradis Professor of History at the European University Institute in Florence. Conrad is also the author ofGlobalisation and Nation in Imperial Germanyand has edited, together with Dominic Sachsenmaier,Competing Visions of World Order: Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s.



List of illustrations


List of maps


Acknowledgements



Introduction



Colonialism before the colonial empire



Pressure groups, motivations, attitudes



The German colonial empire



The colonial state



Economy and work



Colonial society



Knowledge and colonialism



The colonial metropole



Colonialism in Europe



German colonialism and its global contexts



Memory



Selected readings


Index