German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World
豆瓣
Entangled Empires
Janne Lahti (EDT)
简介
Introduction
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.
contents
1 Introduction: Relational Empires 1
Janne Lahti
Part I Portabilities
2 Seapower and Frontier Settlement: Friedrich List’s American Vision for Germany 17
Gregor Thum
3 The Fantasy of Open Space on the Frontier: Max Sering from the Great Plains to Eastern Europe 41
Robert L. Nelson
4 The Role of US Railroads in the German Expansionist Mindset of Gerhard Rohlfs 63
Tracey Reimann-Dawe
5 Between France, Germany, and the United States: Raymond Aron as a Critical Theorist of Colonialism and Empire 83
George Steinmetz
Part II Passages
6 “A Truly Exquisite Little Phrase:” Global Colonialist Visions vs. The “Drang nach Osten” 109
Jens-Uwe Guettel
7 Ruling Classes and Serving Races: German Policies on Land, Labor, and Migration in Trans-Imperial Perspective 129
Dörte Lerp
8 How the Südwest Was Won: Transnational Currents of American Agriculture and Land Colonization in German Southwest Africa 153
Jeannette Eileen Jones
9 Practicing Empire: Germany’s Colonial Visions in the Pacific Northwest 177
Eriks Bredovskis
Part III Parallels
10 Similarity in Appearance—“Chinaman” in German and American Satire Magazines Around 1900 203
Volker M. Langbehn
11 “I Almost Pulled Her to My Heart, but…” Competing Masculinities in Karl May’s Wild West Fictions and Their Modern Theatrical Adaptations 229
A. Dana Weber
12 In Service of Empires: Apaches and Askaris as Colonial Soldiers 253
Janne Lahti and Michelle R. Moyd
13 Words and Wars of Conquest: The Rhetoric of Annihilation in the American West and the Nazi East 277
Edward B. Westermann
Part IV Afterwords
14 Empires of Comparison 301
Andrew Zimmerman
15 Settler Colonialism and Financial Imperialism: The German and United States Empires in a Global Age 307
Sebastian Conrad
Index 315