03310nam 2200625 a 450 991079136370332120230721012212.01-282-62693-097866126269370-85745-052-210.1515/9780857450524(CKB)2560000000012139(EBL)544359(OCoLC)645101039(SSID)ssj0000399850(PQKBManifestationID)12154801(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000399850(PQKBWorkID)10385350(PQKB)11130168(MiAaPQ)EBC544359(DE-B1597)636826(DE-B1597)9780857450524(EXLCZ)99256000000001213920080505d2008 uy 0engur|n|||||||||txtccrLiberal imperialism in Germany[electronic resource] expansionism and nationalism, 1848-1884 /Matthew P. FitzpatrickNew York Berghahn Books20081 online resource (237 pages) illustrationsMonographs in German history ;v. 23Description based upon print version of record.1-84545-520-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-233) and index.Title page-Liberal Imperialism in Germany; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I-A liberal empire for a liberal nation; Chapter 1-National Unification and Overseas Expansion at the Franfurt National Assembly, 1848-1849; Chapter 2-Mythopoesis-Imperialism as nationalism; Part II-Liberal Imperialism in the 'Post-liberal' era; Chapter 3-Informal empire and private sector imperialism, 1849-1884; Chapter 4-Burgerlich agency and the world of the Verrin 1849-1884; Chapter 5-Bismarck and the Sociopolitical COntext of the Colonial 'Umschwung'Part III-The texts of ImperialismChapter 6-Expansionist Agitation after 1849; Chapter 7-Geography and Anthropology in the service of imperialism; Chapter 8-Popular culture and the transmission of imperialist values; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Related Title of InterestIn a work based on new archival, press and literary sources, the author revises the picture of German imperialism as being the brainchild of a Machiavellian Bismarck or the "conservative revolutionaries" of the twentieth century. Instead, Fitzpatrick argues for the liberal origins of German imperialism, by demonstrating the links between nationalism and expansionism in a study that surveys the half century of imperialist agitation and activity leading up to the official founding of Germany's colonial empire in 1884.Monographs in German history ;v. 23.ImperialismHistory19th centuryLiberalismGermanyHistory19th centuryGermanyHistory1848-1870GermanyHistory1871-ImperialismHistoryLiberalismHistory320.54094309034Fitzpatrick Matthew P764718MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791363703321Liberal imperialism in Germany3751051UNINA