The end of World War I meant the dismantling of Germany's overseas empire, but it did not mean the end of colonialist politics. Revenants of the German Empire narrates a new history of German colonialists' disparate efforts to lay claim to Germany's colonial past and to articulate colonial futures. Wempe's distinctive research shows that Germany's early decolonizing experience under the purview of the League of Nations belongs front and center in
understanding later European decolonization processes.
Sean Wempe is Assistant Professor of Modern European History, California State University—Bakersfield.