German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World: Entangled Empires

ISBN-13: 9783030532086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 340 str.

Lahti, Janne

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"The anthology offers excellent special studies on a variety of aspects of transimperial exchange between the United States and Germany. The chapters are written in an accessible manner and are very well documented so that at the points where one might disagree, one always knows what evidence and reasoning the authors base their judgments on." (Julius Wilm, Comparativ -Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, Vol. 32 (6), 2022)
"This is a fine volume that promises to create productive discussions among historians and in the classroom. It clearly demonstrates the global, transnational nature of imperialism and empire by offering comparative analyses of labour recruitment practices, colonial settlements, removal and assimilation policies towards indigenous peoples, and the agents of colonial policies." (Silke Hackenesch, German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. 44 (1), May, 2022)

Spis treści

1. Janne Lahti - Introduction: Globalization and the Shared Histories of Empires

Part I Settler Spaces

2. Gregor Thum - Seapower and Frontier Settlement: Friedrich List’s American Vision for Germany

3. Robert L. Nelson - From the Great Plains to Eastern Europe: Max Sering and the Dream of a Germanic Settler Empire

4. Jens-Uwe Guettel - The Transition from Necessary to Incidental: American Westward Expansion and the Politics of Space in German Thought from the Kaiserreich to the Nazi Era

Part II Cultures of Colonialism

5. Janne Lahti - Buffalo Bill, Carl Hagenbeck, and Human Exhibitions in United States and Germany

6. A. Dana Weber - Masculinities in Karl May’s Wild West Fictions and Their Theatrical Legacies

7. Volker Langbehn - Satire Magazines and the Transnational Circulations of Colonial Racism

8. Willeke Sandler - Empire and Race in Nazi Periodicals

Part III Colonial Policies

9. Dörte Lerp - Ruling Classes and Serving Races: Transnational Influences and Segregated Agrarian Labor Regimes in the Kaiserreich Empire

10. Ulrike Lindner - Segregated Intimacies: Miscegenation in the German Colonies and the American Philippines

11. Tracey Reimann-Dawe - Transcontinental Railroads as Tools of Colonization in the German African Colonies and the American West 

12. Michelle Moyd - Race and Military Recruitment Strategies in the German and United States Empires, 1870-1918

13. Dirk Bönker - German Weltpolitik, Empire by Sea, and the American Example

Part IV Violence

14. George Steinmetz - Explaining Colonial Genocide: German Southwest Africa and the Ethical and Explanatory Imperatives of the Human Sciences

15. Edward B. Westermann - Words and Wars of Annihilation: Military Strategy and Imperial Rhetoric in the American West and the Nazi East

16. Björn Krondorfer and Alex Alvarez - Genocidal Colonial Policies in the Nazi East and the American West: What is the Value of Comparisons?

Afterword

17. Andrew Zimmerman - Transnational Intersections of United States and German Empires

18. Sebastian Conrad - Global Empires and Global Histories

O autorze

Janne Lahti works as an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He specializes in global and transnational histories of settler colonialism, borderlands, the American West, Imperial Germany, and Nordic colonialism.