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Germans, Poland, and Colonial Expansion to the East

1850 Through the Present

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Robert L. Nelson

    1. Department of History, University of Windsor, Canada

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Part of the book series: Studies in European Culture and History (SECH)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Robert L. Nelson
    Pages 1-9

  3. Reinventing Poland as German Colonial Territory in the Nineteenth Century: Gustav Freytag’s Soll und Haben as Colonial Novel

    • Kristin Kopp
    Pages 11-37

  4. The Prussian Settlement Commission and Its Activities in the Land Market, 1886–1918

    • Scott M. Eddie
    Pages 39-63

  5. The Archive for Inner Colonization, the German East, and World War I

    • Robert L. Nelson
    Pages 65-93

  6. Putting the East in Order: German Historians and Their Attempts to Rationalize German Eastward Expansion during the 1930s and 1940s

    • Eduard Mühle
    Pages 95-120

  7. The Languages of Occupation: Vocabularies of German Rule in Eastern Europe in the World Wars

    • Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
    Pages 121-139

  8. The Conquest of Nature and the Mystique of the Eastern Frontier in Nazi Germany

    • David Blackbourn
    Pages 141-170

  9. The Threatening Other in the East: Continuities and Discontinuities in Modern German-Polish Relations

    • Oliver Schmidtke
    Pages 171-197

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 199-201
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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.

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"The first volume devoted exclusively to German inner colonialism from the Polish frontier in the 1850s until the present day, theseinterdisciplinary essays are a signal contribution to scholarship onGerman continental empires, including the Third Reich. " - A. Dirk Moses, University of Sydney

"For a while now, German historians have been remarking upon the congruencies and complicated reciprocities between Germany s imperialist designs on Eastern Europe during the two world wars and the earlier history of overseas colonialism before 1914. Delivering historical depth, focus, and conceptual coherence, this fine collection of essays now gives chapter and verse for that claim. Nelson and his contributors match a challenging general argument about the nature of colonialism to a series of admirably persuasive case studies." - Geoff Eley, Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History and Chair, Department of History, University of Michigan

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, University of Windsor, Canada

    Robert L. Nelson

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ROBERT L. NELSON is Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Windsor, UK.

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