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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820848103321

Titolo

Germans, Poland, and colonial expansion to the east : 1850 through the present / / edited by Robert L. Nelson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

ISBN

1-282-44599-5

9786612445996

0-230-61854-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

Studies in European culture and history

Altri autori (Persone)

NelsonRobert L. <1971->

Disciplina

325.343

Soggetti

Nationalism - Germany - History

Polish question

Imperialism - History

Germany Foreign relations 1871-

Germany Politics and government 1871-

Germany Foreign relations Europe, Eastern

Europe, Eastern Foreign relations Germany

Germany Colonies History

Germany Foreign relations Poland

Poland Foreign relations Germany

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction: Colonialism in Europe? The Case against Salt Water; 1 Reinventing Poland as German Colonial Territory in the Nineteenth Century: Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben as Colonial Novel; 2 The Prussian Settlement Commission and Its Activities in the Land Market, 1886-1918; 3 The Archive for Inner Colonization, the German East, and World War I; 4 Putting the East in Order: German Historians and Their Attempts to Rationalize German Eastward Expansion during the 1930s and 1940s

5 The Languages of Occupation: Vocabularies of German Rule in Eastern Europe in the World Wars6 The Conquest of Nature and the Mystique of the Eastern Frontier in Nazi Germany; 7 The Threatening



Other in the East: Continuities and Discontinuities in Modern German-Polish Relations; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This incisive collection probes the history of colonialism within Europe and posits that Eastern Europe was in fact Germany s true "colonial" empire. Through a series of interdisciplinary essays ranging from 1850 to the European Union of today, this collection explores the idea that Germany s relationship with Poland and Eastern Europe had many similarities to the practice of "overseas" colonialism. As the contributing scholars aptly demonstrate, the history of Germany s relationship with Poland contains all the trappings of the classic colonial encounter, from its structures of power and control, racism and cultural chauvinism, to the implementation of wholesale scientific experimentation in a "lawless" environment.