This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the German colonial empire and its significance. Leading scholars show not only how the colonies influenced metropolitan life and the character of German politics during the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine eras (1871–1918), but also how colonial mentalities and practices shaped later histories during the Nazi era. In introductory essays, editors Geoff Eley and Bradley Naranch survey the historiography and broad developments in the imperial imaginary of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors then examine a range of topics, from science and the colonial state to the disciplinary constructions of Africans as colonial subjects for German administrative control. They consider the influence of imperialism on German society and culture via the mass-marketing of imperial imagery; conceptions of racial superiority in German pedagogy; and the influence of colonialism on German anti-Semitism. The collection concludes with several essays that address geopolitics and the broader impact of the German imperial experience.
Contributors. Dirk Bönker, Jeff Bowersox, David Ciarlo, Sebastian Conrad, Christian S. Davis, Geoff Eley, Jennifer Jenkins, Birthe Kundus, Klaus Mühlhahn, Bradley Naranch, Deborah Neill, Heike Schmidt, J. P. Short, George Steinmetz, Dennis Sweeney, Brett M. Van Hoesen, Andrew Zimmerman
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. German Colonialism Made Simple (Bradley Naranch)
- One. Empire by Land or Sea? Germany’s Imperial Imaginary, 1840–1945 (Geoff Eley)
- Two. Scientific Autonomy and Empire, 1880–1945: Four German Sociologists (George Steinmetz)
- Three. Science and Civilizing Missions: Germans and the Transnational Community of Tropical Medicine (Deborah J. Neill)
- Four. Ruling Africa: Science as Sovereignty in the German Colonial Empire and Its Aftermath (Andrew Zimmerman)
- Five. Who Is Master in the Colony? Propriety, Honor, and Manliness in German East Africa (Heike I. Schmidt)
- Six. A New Imperial Vision? The Limits of German Colonialism in China (Klaus Mühlhahn)
- Seven. Experts, Migrants, Refugees: Making the German Colony in Iran, 1900–1934 (Jennifer Jenkins)
- Eight. Classroom Colonialism: Race, Pedagogy, and Patriotism in Imperial Germany (Jeff Bowersox)
- Nine. Mass-Marketing the Empire: Colonial Fantasies and Advertising Visions (David Ciarlo)
- Ten. Colonialism, War, and the German Working Class: Popular Mobilization in the 1907 Reichstag Elections (John Phillip Short)
- Eleven. Colonialism and the Anti-Semitic Movement in Imperial Germany (Christian S. Davis)
- Twelve. Internal Colonialism in Germany: Culture Wars, Germanification of the Soil, and the Global Market Imaginary (Sebastian Conrad)
- Thirteen. Pan-German Conceptions of Colonial Empire (Dennis Sweeney)
- Fourteen. Maritime Force and the Limits of Empire: Warfare, Commerce, and Law in Germany and the United States before World War I (Dirk Bönker)
- Fifteen. The Rhineland Controversy and Weimar Postcolonialism (Brett M. Van Hoesen)
- Sixteen. Colonialism, Imperialism, National Socialism: How Imperial Was the Third Reich? (Birthe Kundrus)
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
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