Frontiers of empire

Titel: Frontiers of empire : Max Sering, inner colonization, and the German East, 1871-1945 / Robert L. Nelson (University of Windsor)
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Ausgabe: First Paperback edition 2025
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge; New York, NY; Port Melbourne; New Delhi; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2025
Umfang: x, 320 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten ; 24 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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Andere Ausgaben: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe
ISBN: 9781009235365 ; 9781009235372
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Bemerkung: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 280-298
Settler colonialism and how to tell a story : inner settler colonialism and biography -- The frontiers of youth : Kaiserreich, part one -- Career beginnings, Eastern interests : Kaiserreich, part two (1883-1897) -- Settling in : Kaiserreich, part three (1897-1914) -- The radicalization of inner colonization : World War One, 1914-1918 -- Sering the star : the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933 -- Sering's journey comes to an end : the Third Reich, 1933-1939 -- The legacy of Max Sering and inner colonization : the Second World War and its aftermath
Zusammenfassung: "How did the homesteads and reservations of the prairies of western North America influence German colonization, ethnic cleansing, and genocide in Eastern Europe? Max Sering, a world-famous agrarian settlement expert, stood on the Great Plains in 1883 and saw Germany's future in Eastern Europe: a grand scheme of frontier settlement. Sering was a key figure in the evolution of Germany's relationship with its eastern frontier, as well as in the overall transformation of the German Right from the Bismarckian 1880s to the Hitlerian 1930s. 'Inner colonization' was the settlement of farmers in threatened borderland areas within the nation's boundaries. Focusing on this phenomenon, Frontiers of Empire complicates the standard thesis of separation between the colonizing country and the colonized space and blurs the typical boundaries between colonizer and colonized subjects"--Page i