German Colonialism: A Short History
Sebastian Conrad
Language: English
Pages: 246
ISBN: 1107400473
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Germany was a latecomer to the colonial world of the late nineteenth century but this history of German colonialism makes clear the wide-reaching consequences of Germany's short-lived colonial project. Sebastian Conrad charts the expansion of the empire from its origins in the acquisition of substantial territories in present day Togo, Cameroon, Namibia and Tanzania to new settlements in East Asia and the Pacific and reveals the colonialist culture which permeated the German nation and its politics. Drawing on the wider history of European expansion and globalisation he highlights the close interactions and shared vocabularies of the colonial powers and emphasises Germany's major role in the period of high imperialism before 1914. Even beyond the official end of the empire in 1919 the quest for Lebensraum and the growth of the Nazi empire in Eastern Europe can be viewed within a framework of colonialism whose effects resonate to the present day.
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III: 1879–1890, Breslau (Trewendt) 1896, 54. 2 For colonial activities before formal colonialism, see Bradley D. Naranch, Beyond the Fatherland: Colonial Visions, Overseas Expansion, & German Nationalism, 1848–1885, Ph. D. diss., Johns Hopkins University 2006. 3 Heinrich von Treitschke, ‘Die ersten Versuche deutscher Kolonialpolitik’, in: Karl Martin Schiller (ed.), Aufsätze, Reden und Briefe, Meersburg (Hendel) 1929, 665–76, quote on p. 670. 4 Quotes from Hans-Ulrich Wehler, ‘Bismarck’s.
Roots’, Michael Pesek has recently argued, ‘contributed just as much to the formation of colonial power and statehood as did the decrees and programmes of the colonial politicians in Berlin and Dar es Salaam’.3 (See Illustration 17.) Illustration 17 Particularly in the early years of colonial rule, the patterns of exploration and control owed much to pre-colonial structures. In this image in 1885, a German is travelling in a hammock with an awning, carried by Togolese porters. In later years,.
Strandmann, Imperialismus vom grünen Tisch: Deutsche Kolonialpolitik zwischen wirtschaftlicher Ausbeutung und ‘zivilisatorischen’ Bemühungen, Berlin (Ch. Links) 2009. A meticulous if somewhat empiricist case study of the making of the colonial state is Florian Hoffmann, Okkupation und Militärverwaltung in Kamerun: Etablierung und Institutionalisierung des kolonialen Gewaltmonopols, 2 volumes, Göttingen (Cuvillier-Verlag) 2007. For a social history of the higher echelons of the German colonial.
Wolfe W. Schmokel, Dream of Empire: German Colonialism 1919–1945, New Haven (Yale University Press) 1964; Klaus Hildebrand, Vom Reich zum Weltreich: Hitler, NSDAP und koloniale Frage 1919–1945, Munich (Fink) 1969; Jost Dülffer, ‘Kolonialismus ohne Kolonien: Deutsche Kolonialpläne 1938’, in: Franz Knipping and Klaus-Jürgen Müller (eds.), Machtbewußtsein in Deutschland am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkrieges, Paderborn (Schöningh) 1984, 247–70; Alexandre Kum’a N’Dumbe III, Was wollte Hitler in Afrika?.
200 civilizing mission 29, 77, 111–17 and Booker T. Washington 175 and Christianity 33 and the Ottoman empire 170 and the poor in Germany 151 and Togo cotton project 176 criticism of the 34 see also elevation Cixi, Dowager Empress 84 class, in Germany 32 collective memory in Africa 65 in China 62 in Germany 10, 54 colonial administration 71–5, district officers 72 German colonialism compared 73 German Foreign Office 72, 198 integration of local actors in see also luluai; akida.