Germans, Poland, and Colonial Expansion to the East: 1850 Through the Present (Studies in European Culture and History)

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. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 List of Contributors......Page 10 Introduction: Colonialism in Europe? The Case against Salt Water......Page 12 1 Reinventing Poland as German Colonial Territory in the Nineteenth Century: Gustav Freytag’s Soll und Haben as Colonial Novel......Page 22 2 The Prussian Settlement Commission and Its Activities in the Land Market, 1886–1918......Page 50 3 The Archive for Inner Colonization, the German East, and World War I......Page 76 4 Putting the East in Order: German Historians and Their Attempts to Rationalize German Eastward Expansion during the 1930s and 1940s......Page 106 5 The Languages of Occupation: Vocabularies of German Rule in Eastern Europe in the World Wars......Page 132 6 The Conquest of Nature and the Mystique of the Eastern Frontier in Nazi Germany......Page 152 7 The Threatening Other in the East: Continuities and Discontinuities in Modern German-Polish Relations......Page 182 F......Page 210 S......Page 211 W......Page 212

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.

"This 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."--BOOK JACKET This incisive collection probes the history of colonialism within Europe and posits that Eastern Europe was in fact Germanys 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 NL-ZmNBD