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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462831603321

Autore

Smith Woodruff D

Titolo

The German colonial empire [[electronic resource] /] / Woodruff D. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c1978

ISBN

1-4696-1025-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

325/.343

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Germany Colonies History

Germany Politics and government 1871-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-268) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. The origins of Germany's colonial empire -- pt. II. The colonies, 1885-1907 -- pt. III. Colonial politics in Germany, 1890-1906 -- pt. IV. The Dernburg era and its aftermath.

Sommario/riassunto

Although Germany's short-lived colonial empire (1884-1918) was neither large nor successful, it is historically significant. The establishment of German colonies and attempts to expand them affected international politics in a period of extreme tension. Smith focuses on the interaction between Germany's colonial empire and German politics and, by extension, on the connection between colonialism and socioeconomic conflict in Germany before World War I.