1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465579803321

Autore

Liulevicius Vejas G

Titolo

The German myth of the East [[electronic resource] ] : 1800 to the present / / Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-19-156769-8

0-19-954631-2

1-282-35464-7

9786612354649

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Oxford Studies in Modern European History

Disciplina

303.48/243047

Soggetti

Public opinion - Germany - History

National characteristics, German

Electronic books.

Germany Relations Europe, Eastern

Europe, Eastern Relations Germany

Europe, Eastern Foreign public opinion, German History

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

Contents; List of Plates; List of Maps; 1. Introduction; 2. Older Legacies Before 1800; 3. Influences of Enlightenment and Romanticism, 1800-1820s; 4. Fusing the Myth, 1830-1871; 5. Age of Empires, 1871-1914; 6. The First World War and its Aftermath, 1914-1933; 7. Nazi Visions of the East; 8. Nightmare of the Advancing East, 1943-1955; 9. From the Cold War to the Present; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Over the last two centuries and indeed up to the present day, Eastern Europe's lands and peoples have conjured up a complex mixture of fascination, anxiety, promise, and peril for Germans looking eastwards. Across the generations, a varied cast of German writers, artists, philosophers, diplomats, political leaders, generals, and Nazi racial fanatics have imagined (often in very different ways) a special German mission in the East, forging a frontier myth that paralleled the American



myths of the 'Wild West' and 'Manifest Destiny'. Through close analysis of German views of the East from 1800 to

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963192003321

Titolo

From slave trade to empire : Europe and the colonisation of Black Africa, 1780s-1880s / / edited by Olivier Petre-Grenouilleau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, U. K. ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-135-76588-X

1-135-76589-8

1-280-10395-7

0-203-32309-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in modern European history ; ; 8

Altri autori (Persone)

GrenouilleauOlivier

Disciplina

967/.023

Soggetti

Africa, Sub-Saharan Colonization

Africa, Sub-Saharan History To 1884

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

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction: a missing link? The significance of the 1780s-1880s; Economic relations between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa: a global weighing-up; African and European relations in the last century of the transatlantic slave trade; Background to annexation: Anglo-African credit relations in the Bight of Biafra, 1700-1891; Economic relations between Europe and Black Africa c.1780-1938: a quantitative analysis; Southern Europe and Germany: about the 'imperialism of the poor' and the desire for power

An imperialism with no economic basis: the case of Italy, 1869-1939Continental drift: the independence of Brazil (1822), Portugal and Africa; The Portuguese Empire, 1825-90: ideology and economics; The Scramble for Africa: icon and idiom of modernity; France: from a civilising mission to the highest form of mercantilism?; Cultural systems of representation, economic interests and French penetration



into Black Africa, 1780s-1880s; The place and role of the players in colonial expansion: France and east Africa in the nineteenth century

Commercial presence, colonial penetration: Marseille traders in west Africa in the nineteenth centuryAfterword: towards a cosmopolitan history of imperialism; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Much has been written about the origins of the great push which led Europe to colonise sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. This book provides a new perspective on this controversial subject by focussing on Europe and a range of empire-building states: Germany, France, Italy and Portugal. The essays in this volume consider economic themes in addition to the political and cultural aspects of the transition from commerce to colonies.