German Expansionism, Imperial Liberalism and the United States, 1776–1945

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

Av Jens-Uwe Guettel, Jens-Uwe (Pennsylvania State University) Guettel

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This book traces the importance of the United States for German colonialism from the late eighteenth century to 1945, focusing on American westward expansion and racial politics. Jens-Uwe Guettel argues that from the late eighteenth century onward, ideas of colonial expansion played a very important role in liberal, enlightened and progressive circles in Germany, which, in turn, looked across the Atlantic to the liberal-democratic United States for inspiration and concrete examples. Yet following a pre-1914 peak of liberal political influence on the administration and governance of Germany's colonies, the expansionist ideas embraced by Germany's far-right after the country's defeat in the First World War had little or no connection with the German Empire's liberal imperialist tradition - for example, Nazi plans for the settlement of conquered Eastern European territories were not directly linked to pre-1914 transatlantic exchanges concerning race and expansionism.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-10-08
Mått152 x 228 x 17 mm
Vikt440 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor292
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107622616

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Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Soil, liberty, and blood: Germans and American westward expansion before 1871; 2. From theory to practice: German colonialism and American westward expansion before the Great War; 3. The American South and racial segregation in the German colonies; 4. America, race, and German expansionism from the Great War to 1945; Conclusion. Imperial liberalism, Nazi expansionism, and the continuities of German history; Bibliography; Index.

'This impressive monograph offers a provocative new look at Germany's imperial imaginary. Jens-Uwe Guettel expertly shows how pre-World War I German liberal imperialists were attracted to the United States because they saw it as a model empire and racial state. Here, then, is a tightly argued intellectual history of a transatlantic connection and its legacy, a history that takes its readers beyond notions of national exceptionalism and linear continuities and asks us to rethink both the trajectories of nineteenth-century liberalism and the origins of Nazi imperialism.' Dirk Bönker, Duke University