Sebastian Conrad (Freie Universitat Berlin)

German Colonialism

Übersetzung: O'Hagan, Sorcha

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Germany's short-lived colonial project had wide-reaching consequences for German politics and the nation as a whole. Sebastian Conrad draws on the wider history of European expansion and globalisation to shed new light on Germany's major role in the colonial world and the legacy of its involvement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9781107400474
• ISBN-10: 1107400473
• Artikelnr.: 33765147

Autorenporträt

Sebastian Conrad is Professor of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin. His previous books include Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany (Cambridge, 2010) and The Quest for the Lost Nation: Writing History in Germany and Japan in the American Century (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Colonialism before the colonial empire; 3. Pressure groups, motivations, attitudes; 4. The German colonial empire; 5. The colonial state; 6. Economy and work; 7. Colonial society; 8. Knowledge and colonialism; 9. The colonial metropole; 10. Colonialism in Europe; 11. German colonialism and its global contexts; 12. Memory; 13. Selected readings.

Rezensionen

'In this brief but superb book, Conrad manages to couple acute analysis with all the essential information about Germany's colonial ventures in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. It is a model history, a tour de force.' Eric D. Weitz, University of Minnesota