The Nature Of German Imperialism

Author : Bernhard Gissibl
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1789204925

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The Nature of German Imperialism by Bernhard Gissibl Pdf

Today, the East African state of Tanzania is renowned for wildlife preserves such as the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Selous Game Reserve. Yet few know that most of these initiatives emerged from decades of German colonial rule. This book gives the first full account of Tanzanian wildlife conservation up until World War I, focusing upon elephant hunting and the ivory trade as vital factors in a shift from exploitation to preservation that increasingly excluded indigenous Africans. Analyzing the formative interactions between colonial governance and the natural world, The Nature of German Imperialism situates East African wildlife policies within the global emergence of conservationist sensibilities around 1900.

Author : Bernhard Gissibl
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785331763

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The Nature of German Imperialism by Bernhard Gissibl Pdf

Today, the East African state of Tanzania is renowned for wildlife preserves such as the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Selous Game Reserve. Yet few know that most of these initiatives emerged from decades of German colonial rule. This book gives the first full account of Tanzanian wildlife conservation up until World War I, focusing upon elephant hunting and the ivory trade as vital factors in a shift from exploitation to preservation that increasingly excluded indigenous Africans. Analyzing the formative interactions between colonial governance and the natural world, The Nature of German Imperialism situates East African wildlife policies within the global emergence of conservationist sensibilities around 1900.

Author : Bradley Naranch,Geoff Eley
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822376392

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German Colonialism in a Global Age by Bradley Naranch,Geoff Eley Pdf

This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the German colonial empire and its significance. Leading scholars show not only how the colonies influenced metropolitan life and the character of German politics during the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine eras (1871–1918), but also how colonial mentalities and practices shaped later histories during the Nazi era. In introductory essays, editors Geoff Eley and Bradley Naranch survey the historiography and broad developments in the imperial imaginary of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors then examine a range of topics, from science and the colonial state to the disciplinary constructions of Africans as colonial subjects for German administrative control. They consider the influence of imperialism on German society and culture via the mass-marketing of imperial imagery; conceptions of racial superiority in German pedagogy; and the influence of colonialism on German anti-Semitism. The collection concludes with several essays that address geopolitics and the broader impact of the German imperial experience. Contributors. Dirk Bönker, Jeff Bowersox, David Ciarlo, Sebastian Conrad, Christian S. Davis, Geoff Eley, Jennifer Jenkins, Birthe Kundus, Klaus Mühlhahn, Bradley Naranch, Deborah Neill, Heike Schmidt, J. P. Short, George Steinmetz, Dennis Sweeney, Brett M. Van Hoesen, Andrew Zimmerman

Author : H. Glenn Penny,Matti Bunzl
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0472089269

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Worldly Provincialism by H. Glenn Penny,Matti Bunzl Pdf

Worldly Provincialism introduces readers to German anthropology during the age of empire and illustrates how the initial motives and interests that gave birth to German anthropology were channeled and shaped by contexts as various as romantic voyages in the South Pacific, the Herero wars in Southwest Africa, open-air presentations of exotic peoples in Berlin, and prison camps during World War I. It also shows that Germans' unique intellectual traditions, their emphasis on concepts of culture, and the late arrival of both the German nation-state and the German colonial empire affected their interest in and relationships with non-Europeans. Worldly Provincialism confirms that there is no justification for presupposing that Europeans shared a common cultural code while abroad or for assuming that they would have behaved similarly during their interactions with non-Europeans. Thus, we must rethink the relationships among anthropology, colonialism, and race. It also forces a rethinking of our understanding of race in the nineteenth century, when race science emerged and eclipsed many alternative racial theories. H. Glenn Penny is Assistant Professor of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Matti Bunzl is Aaron and Robin Fischer Assistant Professor of Jewish Culture and Society, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Author : Mark Hewitson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107039155

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Germany and the Modern World, 1880–1914 by Mark Hewitson Pdf

Re-assesses Germany's relationship with the wider world before 1914 by examining the connections between nationalism, transnationalism, imperialism and globalization.

Author : Jürgen Zimmerer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789207507

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German Rule, African Subjects by Jürgen Zimmerer Pdf

Although it lasted only thirty years, German colonial rule dramatically transformed South West Africa. The colonial government not only committed the first genocide of the twentieth century against the Herero and Nama, but in their efforts to establish a “model colony” and “racial state,” they brought about even more destructive and long-lasting consequences. In this now-classic study—available here for the first time in English—the author provides an indispensable account of Germany's colonial utopia in what is present-day Namibia, showing how the highly rationalized planning of Wilhelmine authorities ultimately failed even as it added to the profound immiseration of the African population.

Author : Janne Lahti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030532062

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German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World by Janne Lahti Pdf

This book contributes to global history by examining the connected histories of German and United States colonial empires from the early nineteenth century to the Nazi era. It looks at multiple and multidirectional flows, transfers, and circulations of ideas, people, and practices as Germany and the US were embedded in, and created by, an interconnected world of empires. This relationship was not exceptional, but emblematic of the diverse entanglements that created colonial globality. Colonial entanglements between Germany and the United States took on many forms, but these shared and intersecting histories have been underanalyzed. Traditionally, Germany and the United States have been understood to have taken, respectively, an authoritarian and liberal path into modernity. But there is no neat dichotomy, as the contributors to this book illustrate. There are many more similarities than have previously been appreciated – and they are the result of multilayered entanglements made visible via conquest, settler societies, racialization, and rule of difference. Building on present historiographies of empires, colonialism, and globalization, this book introduces new analytical possibilities for examining these two relatively understudied empires alongside each other, as well as at their intersections. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1412825989

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Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution by Thorstein Veblen Pdf

Author : Woodruff D. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198020714

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The Ideological Origins of Nazi Imperialism by Woodruff D. Smith Pdf

This study traces the evolution of imperialist ideology in Germany from Bismarck in the mid-19th century through Hitler and the Third Reich. Although much has been written about the virulently racist and anti-communist ideologies of the Nazi party, this is the first book to treat Nazi imperialism as a separate ideology and set it within a sturdy theoretical framework. Smith contends that Nazi imperialism represented the last, ambitious attempt to integrate two century-old ideologies--the elite, pro-industrial Weltpolitik and the popular-based, pro-agrarian Lebensraum--into a single system. In fact, Smith argues that it was largely the way in which the Nazis attempted to reconcile these contradictory ideologies that explains Germany's disastrous policies during World War II. This wide-ranging study also contributes to the debates over several other aspects of German history, including German military aims in World War II, the continuity--or discontinuity--of German policy from Bismarck to Hitler, and the relation between ideology and social-political life.

Author : Jacques Marquis De Dampierre
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020930241

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German Imperialism and International Law by Jacques Marquis De Dampierre Pdf

In this classic work on international law, Jacques Marquis de Dampierre explores the nature and impact of German imperialism on the legal systems and institutions of Europe and the world. Drawing on a wealth of historical and legal sources, the author shows how German imperialism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War I and how it ultimately led to the rise of Nazi Germany. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of international law and the role it has played in shaping the modern world. LOW This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Shelley Baranowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521857390

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Nazi Empire by Shelley Baranowski Pdf

Examines the history of Germany from 1871 to 1945 as an expression of the 'tension of empire'.

Author : Peter J. Hempenstall
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781921934322

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Pacific Islanders Under German Rule by Peter J. Hempenstall Pdf

This is an important book. It is a reprint of the first detailed study of how Pacific Islanders responded politically and economically to their rulers across the German empire of the Pacific. Under one cover, it captures the variety of interactions between the various German colonial administrations, with their separate approaches, and the leaders and people of Samoa in Polynesia, the major island centre of Pohnpei in Micronesia and the indigenes of New Guinea. Drawing on anthropology, new Pacific history insights and a range of theoretical works on African and Asian resistance from the 1960s and 1970s, it reveals the complexities of Islander reactions and the nature of protests against German imperial rule. It casts aside old assumptions that colonised peoples always resisted European colonisers. Instead, this book argues convincingly that Islander responses were often intelligent and subtle manipulations of their rulers’ agendas, their societies dynamic enough to make their own adjustments to the demands of empire. It does not shy away from major blunders by German colonial administrators, nor from the strategic and tactical mistakes of Islander leaders. At the same time, it raises the profile of several large personalities on both sides of the colonial frontier, including Lauaki Namulau’ulu Mamoe and Wilhelm Solf in Samoa; Henry Nanpei, Georg Fritz and Karl Boeder in Pohnpei; or Governor Albert Hahl and Po Minis from Manus Island in New Guinea.

Author : Geoff Eley,James Retallack
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857457110

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Wilhelminism and Its Legacies by Geoff Eley,James Retallack Pdf

What was distinctive—and distinctively "modern"—about German society and politics in the age of Kaiser Wilhelm II? In addressing this question, these essays assemble cutting-edge research by fourteen international scholars. Based on evidence of an explicit and self-confidently "bourgeois" formation in German public culture, the contributors suggest new ways of interpreting its reformist potential and advance alternative readings of German political history before 1914. While proposing a more measured understanding of Wilhelmine Germany's extraordinarily dynamic society, they also grapple with the ambivalent, cross-cutting nature of German "modernities" and reassess their impact on long-term developments running through the Wilhelmine age.

Author : P. J. R.
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0656209593

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British Versus German Imperialism by P. J. R. Pdf

Excerpt from British Versus German Imperialism: A Contrast Inoe the commencement of the Great European War, many people have found themselves at a loss, on account of their lack of knowledge of Euro pean governments, particularly those of the British and German Empires, to form an honest Opinion on the great European conflict. Charges of Prussian militarism against Germany and counter charges of a similar nature against Great Britain have been made by partisans of both sides. The purpose of this pamphlet is to lay before Americans the two systems of Imperialism, representing, on the one hand, the German Empire, and on the other, the British Empire, and let the readers judge for them selves. P. J. R. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Bernhard Gissibl,Sabine Höhler,Patrick Kupper
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857455277

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Civilizing Nature by Bernhard Gissibl,Sabine Höhler,Patrick Kupper Pdf

National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, this volume adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time. It focuses especially on the actors, networks, mechanisms, arenas, and institutions responsible for the global spread of the national park and the associated utilization and mobilization of asymmetrical relationships of power and knowledge, contributing to scholarly discussions of globalization and the emergence of global environmental institutions and governance.