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German colonialism [electronic resource] : race, the Holocaust, and postwar Germany / edited by Volker Langbehn and Mohammad Salama.

Langbehn, Volker Max, 1959- (Added Author). Salama, Mohammad. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 0231520549 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 9780231520546 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0231149727 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780231149723 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0231149735 (paper : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780231149730 (paper : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxi, 327 p.)
  • Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.

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Multi-User.
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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Racism > Africa > History.
Imperialism > Social aspects > Germany > History.
HISTORY / Europe / General
Racism > Germany > History.
World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Nationalism > Germany > History.
Continuity > Political aspects > Germany > History.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Germany > Colonies > Africa > History.
Africa > Colonial influence.
Germany > History > 1945-
Genre: Electronic books.


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