LEADER 04676nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910786351303321 005 20230126205827.0 010 $a0-8014-6822-1 010 $a0-8014-6823-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801468230 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276635 035 $a(OCoLC)818734219 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10623017 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000756276 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11463358 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756276 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10750077 035 $a(PQKB)11702533 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001500166 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138397 035 $a(OCoLC)966756825 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51881 035 $a(DE-B1597)478507 035 $a(OCoLC)1013938903 035 $a(OCoLC)979904761 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801468230 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138397 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10623017 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681749 035 $a(OCoLC)922998329 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276635 100 $a20120522d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMagic lantern empire$b[electronic resource] $ecolonialism and society in Germany /$fJohn Phillip Short 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50467-9 311 $a0-8014-5094-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : empire as world and idea : colonialism and society in Germany -- Estrangement : structures and limits of the colonial public sphere -- World of work, world of goods : propaganda and the formation of its object -- No place in the sun : the people's empire -- Carnival knowledge : enlightenment and distraction in the field of culture -- Ethnographic-fantastic : working-class readers at the colonial library -- The Hottentot elections : colonial politics, socialist politics -- Conclusion : magic lantern empire : reflections on colonialism and society. 330 $aMagic Lantern Empire examines German colonialism as a mass cultural and political phenomenon unfolding at the center of a nascent, conflicted German modernity. John Phillip Short draws together strands of propaganda and visual culture, science and fantasy to show how colonialism developed as a contested form of knowledge that both reproduced and blurred class difference in Germany, initiating the masses into a modern market worldview. A nuanced account of how ordinary Germans understood and articulated the idea of empire, this book draws on a diverse range of sources: police files, spy reports, pulp novels, popular science writing, daily newspapers, and both official and private archives.In Short's historical narrative-peopled by fantasists and fabulists, by impresarios and amateur photographers, by ex-soldiers and rank-and-file socialists, by the luckless and bored along the margins of German society-colonialism emerges in metropolitan Germany through a dialectic of science and enchantment within the context of sharp class conflict. He begins with the organized colonial movement, with its expert scientific and associational structures and emphatic exclusion of the "masses." He then turns to the grassroots colonialism that thrived among the lower classes, who experienced empire through dime novels, wax museums, and panoramas. Finally, he examines the ambivalent posture of Germany's socialists, who mounted a trenchant critique of colonialism, while in their reading rooms workers spun imperial fantasies. It was from these conflicts, Short argues, that there first emerged in the early twentieth century a modern German sense of the global. 606 $aImperialism$zGermany$xPublic opinion$xHistory 606 $aImperialism$xSocial aspects$zGermany$xHistory 606 $aPopular culture$zGermany$xHistory 606 $aPublic opinion$zGermany$xHistory 607 $aGermany$xColonies$xPublic opinion$xHistory 610 $agerman colonialism, records of the colonial movement, deutsches kolonialreich, social and cultural history of colonialism in germany. 615 0$aImperialism$xPublic opinion$xHistory. 615 0$aImperialism$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory. 615 0$aPublic opinion$xHistory. 676 $a325/.343 700 $aShort$b John Phillip$f1967-$01569981 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786351303321 996 $aMagic lantern empire$93843312 997 $aUNINA