After the Imperialist Imagination: Two Decades of Research on Global Germany and Its Legacies

ISBN-13: 9781788742009 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 354 str.

Sara Pugach;David Pizzo;Adam Blackler

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This collection analyzes scholarship on global Germany since 1998, assessing its impact on German historiography and diaspora studies. It reveals that Germany's colonial presence overseas forged links to landscapes, traditions, and communities beyond Europe that continue to modify the cultural boundaries of Germanness into the present day.

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Contents: Sara Pugach/David Pizzo/Adam A. Blackler: Introduction: The Imperialist Imagination 20 Years On: The Historiographical Shift toward a Global Germany - Forming the Empire - Adam A. Blackler: The Language of Empire: Aspiring German Colonists and the Heimat Ideal in Imperial Germany - Lisa M. Todd: Studying Sexual and Racial «Mixture»: Eugen Fischer and the Rehoboth Basters of German Southwest Africa, 1908 - Matthew Unangst: Emin Pasha and Fracturing Imperialist Imaginaries in the Late 1880s - World War I and Interwar Connections - Michelle R. Moyd: Visualizing Women's War Work: Photographs and Labor in a German Colonial War Memoir - Paul Glen Grant: Forgiving the Missionaries: African Moral Imagination and Postcolonial Germans - Ute Ritz-Deutch: German Scientists in South America: Correspondences between Robert Lehmann-Nitsche, Hermann von Ihering, and Max Uhle - The Third Reich and the World - David Pizzo: A History of Nazi Germany as Global History - Alan Rosenfeld : P/pacific Propaganda: The Nazi Appropriation of Aloha in Klaus Mehnert's The XXth Century - Valerie Weinstein: From the «Olympic Ideal» and German-Japanese «Sports Friendship» to Militarization and Gendered Nationalism: The Shifting Ends of The Holy Goal - Into the Cold War - Sara Pugach: The Global GDR - Nicholas Ostrum: «Which Germany Do You Come From?»: Contending German Legacies and Trade in Postcolonial Libya - Brittany Lehman : West German Involvement in North African Decolonization in the 1950s and 1960s - Jennifer Ruth Hosek: Christa Wolf in Cuba, or a Case Study in Transnational Collaboration - Unified Germany Worldwide - Jeffrey Jurgens: Recasting Empire: The «Refugee Crisis» in Germany, Europe, and Beyond - Priscilla Layne: The Collective Responsibility of Colonialism: Postcolonial Fantasies in Christof Hamann's Usambara(2007) - Vanessa D. Plumly: Post-Wall Germany, the «Post»-Imperialist Imagination, and the Shock-Factor of Crumbling Façades: Exploring the Intersections of North/South and East/West Encounters.

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Sara Pugach is Professor in the Department of History at California State University, Los Angeles.

David Pizzo is Professor in the Department of History at Murray State University.

Adam A. Blackler is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Wyoming.