German and United States colonialism in a connected world : entangled empires / Janne Lahti, editor.
This book contributes to global history by examining the connected histories of German and United States colonial empires from the early nineteenth century to the Nazi era. It looks at multiple and multidirectional flows, transfers, and circulations of ideas, people, and practices as Germany and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Globalization and the Shared Histories of Empires / Janne Lahti
- Part I Settler Spaces. Seapower and Frontier Settlement: Friedrich Lists American Vision for Germany / Gregor Thum ; From the Great Plains to Eastern Europe: Max Sering and the Dream of a Germanic Settler Empire / Robert L. Nelson ; The Transition from Necessary to Incidental: American Westward Expansion and the Politics of Space in German Thought from the Kaiserreich to the Nazi Era / Jens-Uwe Guettel
- Part II Cultures of Colonialism. Buffalo Bill, Carl Hagenbeck, and Human Exhibitions in United States and Germany / Janne Lahti ; Masculinities in Karl Mays Wild West Fictions and Their Theatrical Legacies / A. Dana Weber ; Satire Magazines and the Transnational Circulations of Colonial Racism / Volker Langbehn ; Empire and Race in Nazi Periodicals / Willeke Sandler
- Part III Colonial Policies. - Ruling Classes and Serving Races: Transnational Influences and Segregated Agrarian Labor Regimes in the Kaiserreich Empire / Dorte Lerp ; Segregated Intimacies: Miscegenation in the German Colonies and the American Philippines / Ulrike Lindner ; Transcontinental Railroads as Tools of Colonization in the German African Colonies and the American West / Tracey Reimann-Dawe ; Race and Military Recruitment Strategies in the German and United States Empires, 1870-1918 / Michelle Moyd ; German Weltpolitik, Empire by Sea, and the American Example / Dirk Bonker
- Part IV Violence. Explaining Colonial Genocide: German Southwest Africa and the Ethical and Explanatory Imperatives of the Human Sciences / George Steinmetz ; Words and Wars of Annihilation: Military Strategy and Imperial Rhetoric in the American West and the Nazi East / Edward B. Westermann ; Genocidal Colonial Policies in the Nazi East and the American West: What is the Value of Comparisons? / Bjorn Krondorfer and Alex Alvarez
- Afterword. - Transnational Intersections of United States and German Empires / Andrew Zimmerman ; Global Empires and Global Histories / Sebastian Conrad.