[PDF] German Colonialism And National Identity eBook

Author : Michael Perraudin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 41,45 MB
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1136977589

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German colonialism is a thriving field of study. From North America to Japan, within Germany, Austria and Switzerland, scholars are increasingly applying post-colonial questions and methods to the study of Germany and its culture. However, no introduction on this emerging field of study has combined political and cultural approaches, the study of literature and art, and the examination of both metropolitan and local discourses and memories. This book will fill that gap and offer a broad prelude, of interest to any scholar and student of German history and culture as well as of colonialism in general. It will be an indispensable tool for both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. .

Author : Volker Langbehn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 2010-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135153353

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Investigating visual communication and mass culture, print culture and suggestive racial politics, racial aesthetics, racial politics and early German film, racial continuity and German film, and photography, this title offers an evidence of a German society between 1884 and 1919 that produced vibrant and heterogeneous cultures of colonialism.

Author : Sara Friedrichsmeyer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Arts, German
ISBN : 9780472066827

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The first anthology of essays to address colonial and postcolonial issues in German history, culture, and literature

Author : Daniel Joseph Walther
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Germans
ISBN : 0821414585

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When World War I brought an end to German colonial rule in Namibia, much of the German population stayed on. The German community, which had managed to deal with colonial administration, faced new challenges when the region became a South African mandate under the League of Nations in 1919. One of these was the issue of Germanness, which ultimately resulted in public conversations and expressions of identity. In Creating Germans Abroad, Daniel Walther examines this discourse and provides striking new insights into the character of the German populace in both Germany and its former colony, Southwest Africa, known today as Namibia. In addition to German colonialism, Walther considers issues of race, class, and gender and the activities of minority groups. He offers new perspectives on German cultural and national identity during the Empire, the Weimar Republic, and the Third Reich. In a larger context, Creating Germans Abroad acts as a model for investigating the strategies and motivations of groups and individuals engaged in national or ethnic engineering and demonstrates how unforeseen circumstances can affect the nature and outcome of these endeavors.

Author : Eric Ames
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 25,44 MB
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080325119X

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Germany’s Colonial Pasts is a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies. Inspired by Susanne Zantop’s landmark book Colonial Fantasies, and extending her analyses there, this volume offers new research by scholars from Europe, Africa, and the United States. It also commemorates Zantop’s distinguished life and career (1945–2001). Some essays in this volume focus on Germany’s formal colonial empire in Africa and the Pacific between 1884 and 1914, while others present material from earlier or later periods such as German emigration before 1884 and colonial discourse in German-ruled Polish lands. Several essays examine Germany’s postcolonial era, a complex period that includes the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany with its renewed colonial obsessions, and the post-1945 era. Particular areas of emphasis include the relationship of anti-Semitism to colonial racism; respectability, sexuality, and cultural hierarchies in the formal empire; Nazi representations of colonialism; and contemporary perceptions of race. The volume’s disciplinary reach extends to musicology, religious studies, film, and tourism studies as well as literary analysis and history. These essays demonstrate why modern Germany must confront its colonial and postcolonial pasts, and how those pasts continue to shape the German cultural imagination.

Author : Patrick Sullivan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 2023
Category : German newspapers
ISBN :

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In recent decades, historians have increasingly recognized the significance of German colonialism. Though short-lived in relation to other European overseas empires (created in 1884 and dissolved in 1919), the German colonial empire had a substantial historical impact. Historians have drawn particular attention to colonialism's influence on national identity within the Deutsches Reich. To many Germans in the recently formed nation-state (founded in 1871), the foreign possessions represented Germany's status as a world power and a mission to spread German culture across much of the globe. The colonial settler press was an especially important institution to such imperialist modes of thought. These newspapers were not limited to their places of origin such as Africa or Samoa, and exported to the metropole as well. Such publications disseminated their colonial perspectives to their mother country, and influenced German national identities in doing so. The given thesis focuses in particular on one German colonial newspaper: Südwest: Unabhängige Zeitung für die Interessen des gesamten Schutzgebiets. Despite its significance, the German colonial settler press has received a limited amount of historical attention, and this thesis is the first historical study to center on the chosen publication. It analyzes the colonial Southwest African paper's representations of national identity from its beginnings in 1910 until its sudden closure amidst the First World War in 1914, and the manners in which the newspaper's colonial coverage conveyed a specific sense of German-ness to its readership. Included in the publication's form of national identity is: a preference for settler-farmers as an ideal economic class, negative stereotypes used to contrast Africans with Germans, and a gendered worldview that extolled "imperial masculinity." Through a close analysis of the German identity communicated in the pages of Südwest, this thesis offers a unique examination of the colonial settler press and the perspectives that it contributed to the German public consciousness.

Author : Klaus Mühlhahn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3110525623

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This edited volume explores social, economic, political, and cultural practices generated by African, Asian, and Oceanic individuals and groups within the context and aftermath of German colonialism. The volume contributes to current debates on transnational and intercultural processes while highlighting the ways in which the colonial period is embedded in larger processes of globalization.

Author : Nina Berman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 38,35 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0472029703

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German Colonialism Revisited brings together military historians, art historians, literary scholars, cultural theorists, and linguists to address a range of issues surrounding colonized African, Asian, and Oceanic people’s creative reactions to and interactions with German colonialism. This scholarship sheds new light on local power dynamics; agency; and economic, cultural, and social networks that preceded and, as some now argue, ultimately structured German colonial rule. Going beyond issues of resistance, these essays present colonialism as a shared event from which both the colonized and the colonizers emerged changed.

Author : Volker Max Langbehn
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0231149727

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Mohammad Salama teaches Arabic in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at San Francisco State University. --Book Jacket.