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

• Pubblicazione: New York, NY, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (212 p.)
• Disciplina: 325.343
• Soggetto topico: Nationalism - Germany - History; Polish question; Imperialism - History
• Soggetto geografico: 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
• Altri autori: NelsonRobert L. <1971->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Germans, Poland, and colonial expansion to the east
• ISBN: 1-282-44599-5; 9786612445996; 0-230-61854-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820848103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in European culture and history.