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1 online resource |
Contents |
Cover; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Grappling with Empire; 1 Playing Empire: Toys, Games, and the German Colonial Imaginary; 2 Studying Empire: Classroom Instruction, School Geographers, and Pedagogical Reform; 3 Seeing Empire: Colonialist Expertise and Spectacular Lessons Outside the Classroom; 4 Reading Empire: Politics, Gender, Confession, and Class in Commercial Youth Literature; 5 Living Empire: The Pathfinders and Conflicts between Patriotism and Pedagogy; Conclusion: Growing Up with Empire; Select Bibliography |
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Picture AcknowledgementsIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
Summary |
This book is a cultural history of the German colonial imagination around the turn of the twentieth century. Looking beyond the colonialist movement, it focuses on young Germans who grew up during this era and the various commercial and educational media through which they daily encountered the wider world. Using their imaginary colonial encounters, Jeff Bowersox explores how Germans young and old came to terms with a globalizing world. Chapters on toys, school instruction, popular literature, and the Boy Scouts (or Pfadfinder) reveal how Germans, through mass consumer culture and mass education, built a definitive association between colonial hierarchies and Germany's place in the modern age. By 1914 this colonial sensibility had been accepted as common sense, but it always remained flexible and vague. It could be adapted to serve competing and contradictory purposes, ranging from profit and pedagogical reform to nationalist mobilization and international socialist solidarity |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Imperialism in popular culture -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
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Imperialism in popular culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Youth -- Germany -- Attitudes -- History -- 19th century
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Youth -- Germany -- Attitudes -- History -- 20th century
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Education and state -- Germany -- History
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Education and state
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Imperialism in popular culture
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Social conditions
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Youth -- Attitudes
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SUBJECT |
Germany -- Social conditions -- 1871-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054656
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Subject |
Germany
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780191636929 |
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0191636924 |
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