German Colonialism Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany

Name: German Colonialism Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany
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ISBN: 9780231149730

ISBN-10: 0231149735

ISBN-13: 9780231149730

Edition: 2011

Authors: Volker Langbehn, Mohammad Salama

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More than half a century before the mass executions of the Holocaust, Germany devastated the peoples of southwestern Africa. While colonialism might seem marginal to German history, controversial new scholarship compares the acts of this period with Nazi practices on the Eastern and Western fronts.Examples of the most important research conducted on the "continuity thesis" over the past five years, the chapters in this anthology debate the connections between German colonialist activities and the behavior of Germany during World War II. Some argue that the country's domination of southwestern Africa gave rise to perceptions of racial difference and superiority at home, contributing to a…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 5/17/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Reconfiguring German Colonialism




Colonial (Dis)Continuities: Framing the Issue



Borrowed Light: Nietzsche and the Colonies




German Colonialism: Some Reflections on Reassessments, Specificities, and Constellations




Lebensraum and Genocide



Against ï¿½Human Diversity as Suchï¿½: Lebensraum and Genocide in the Third Reich




Hannah Arendt, Imperialisms, and the Holocaust




Caesura, Continuity, and Myth: The Stakes of Tethering the Holocaust to German Colonial Theory




Looking East: Poland, the Ottoman Empire, and Politicized Jihadism



Germany's Adventures in the Orient: A History of Ambivalent Semicolonial Entanglements




Arguing the Case for a Colonial Poland




Colonialism, and No End: The Other Continuity Theses




Of Missionaries, Economics, and Intranational Self-Perception



The Purpose of German Colonialism, or the Long Shadow of Bismarck's Colonial Policy




Christian Missionary Societies in the German Colonies, 1884/85-1914/15




German Colonialism and the British Neighbor in Africa Before 1914: Self-Definitions, Lines of Demarcation, and Cooperation




Postcolonial German Politics



ï¿½Kalashnikovs, Not Coca-Cola, Bring Self-Determination to Angolaï¿½: The Two Germanys, Lusophone Africa, and the Rhetoric of Colonial Difference




Germany, Palestine, Israel, and the (Post)Colonial Imagination



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