Sean Andrew Wempe

Revenants of the German Empire

Colonial Germans, Imperialism, and the League of Nations

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Produktbeschreibung

Framed by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, the formation of the League of Nations Mandates System, the 1925 Locarno Conference, and the Manchurian Crisis of the early 1930s, Revenants of the German Empire: Colonial Germans, Imperialism, and the League of Nations explores the adaptiveness of German colonists after the loss of the German colonies following the First World War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 170mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9780190907211
• ISBN-10: 0190907215
• Artikelnr.: 54599684

Autorenporträt

Sean Wempe is Assistant Professor of Modern European History, California State University--Bakersfield.

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Contents
* Acknowledgements
* List of Abbreviations
* Introduction
* Chapter One: A Question of Respectability: Colonial German Responses
to the Treaty of Versailles and "Colonial Guilt"
* Chapter Two: "O Afrika, Meine Seele ist in dir geblieben": Heimat and
Citizenship for German Settlers in the 1920s
* Chapter Three: "Echte Deutsche" or "Half-baked Englishmen"? German
Southwest African Settlers and the Naturalization Crisis, 1922-1924
* Chapter Four: Grasping for a "Great New Future": The German Colonial
Lobbies in Search of a United Platform
* Chapter Five: From "Unfit Imperialists" to "Fellow Civilizers":
German Colonial Officials on the Permanent Mandates Commission
* Chapter Six: "The Faithful Hounds of Imperialism"? Heinrich Schnee on
the League's Manchurian Commission
* Epilogue
* Archives and Bibliography