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Title German colonialism : race, the Holocaust, and postwar Germany / edited by Volker Langbehn and Mohammad Salama
Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 327 pages)
Contents Introduction: Reconfiguring German colonialism / Volker Langbehn and Mohammad Salama -- pt. 1. Colonial (dis)continuities : framing the issue -- Borrowed light : Nietzsche and the colonies / Timothy Brennan -- German colonialism : some reflections on reassessments, specificities, and constellations / Birthe Kundrus -- pt. 2. Lebensraum and genocide -- Against "human diversity as such" : Lebensraum and genocide in the Third Reich / Shelley Baranowski -- Hannah Arendt, imperialisms, and the Holocaust / A. Dirk Moses -- Caesura, continuity, and myth : the stakes of tethering the Holocaust to German colonial theory / Kitty Millet -- pt. 3. Looking East : Poland, the Ottoman Empire, and politicized Jihadism -- Germany's adventures in the Orient : a history of ambivalent semicolonial entanglements / Malte Fuhrmann -- Arguing the case for a colonial Poland / Kristin Kopp -- Colonialism, and no end : the other continuity theses / Russell A. Berman -- pt. 4. Of Missionaries, Economics, and Intranational Self-Perception -- The purpose of German colonialism, or, The long shadow of Bismarck's colonial policy / Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann -- Christian missionary societies in the German colonies, 1884/85-1914/15 / Ulrich van der Heyden -- German colonialism and the British neighbor in Africa before 1914 : self-definitions, lines of demarcation, and cooperation / Ulrike Lindner -- pt. 5. Postcolonial German politics -- "Kalashnikovs, not Coca-Cola, bring self-determination to Angola" : the two Germanys, Lusophone Africa, and the rhetoric of colonial difference / Luis Madureira -- Germany, Palestine, Israel, and the (post)colonial imagination / Martin Braach-Maksvytis
Summary 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, new scholarship compares these acts to Nazi practices on the Eastern and Western fronts. With some of the most important essays from the past five years exploring the ""continuity thesis, "" this anthology debates the links between German colonialist activities and the behavior of Germany during World War II. Some contributors argue the country's domination of southwestern Africa gave rise to perceptions o
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SUBJECT BMBF-Statusseminar gnd
Subject Racism -- Germany -- History
Racism -- Africa -- History
Nationalism -- Germany -- History
Continuity -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Atrocities
Colonial influence
German colonies
Imperialism -- Social aspects
Nationalism
Racism
Kolonialismus
Kolonialisme.
Imperialisme.
Kolonialpolitik -- Tyskland.
Imperialism -- psykologiska aspekter.
Nationalism -- Tyskland -- historia -- 1900-talet.
Nazism.
SUBJECT Germany -- Colonies -- Africa -- History
Africa -- Colonial influence
Germany -- History -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001544
Subject Africa
Germany
Tyskland -- diplomatiska förbindelser -- 1900-talet.
Tyskland -- kolonier -- Afrika.
Genre/Form History
Kongress
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Langbehn, Volker Max, 1959-
Salama, Mohammad
LC no. 2010023533
ISBN 0231520549
9780231520546
0231149727
9780231149723
0231149735
9780231149730
1283072769
9781283072762
9786613072764
6613072761