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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974470103321

Titolo

Germans, Poland, and Colonial Expansion to the East : 1850 Through the Present / / edited by R. Nelson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009

ISBN

9786612445996

9781282445994

1282445995

9780230618541

0230618545

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

Studies in European Culture and History, , 2945-6282

Altri autori (Persone)

NelsonRobert L. <1971->

Disciplina

325.343

Soggetti

Europe - History

History, Modern

Russia - History

Europe, Eastern - History

Soviet Union - History

Europe, Central - History

European History

Modern History

Russian, Soviet, and East European History

History of Germany and Central Europe

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.