Helpless Imperialists: Imperial Failure, Fear And Radicalization (schriftenreihe Der Frias School Of History)

»Helpless Imperialists« enquires into the relation between imperial exposure, fear, radicalization and violence and highlights moments of peripety bringing imperialist grandeur to collapse. Title Page 4 Copyright 5 Table of Contents 6 Body 8 Maurus Reinkowski and Gregor Thum: Helpless Imperialists: Introduction 8 Jörn Leonhard: Imperial Projections and Piecemeal Realities: Multiethnic Empires and the Experience of Failure in the Nineteenth Century 22 Maurus Reinkowski: Hapless Imperialists and Resentful Nationalists: Trajectories of Radicalization in the Late Ottoman Empire 48 Jaine Chemmachery: The Uncanny: Fear and the Supernatural in the Colonial Short Fiction by Rudyard Kipling and Somerset Maugham . 69 Sandra Maß: Welcome to the Jungle: Imperial Men, “Inner Africa” and Mental Disorder in Colonial Discourse 93 Eva Bischoff: Tropenkoller: Male Self-Control and the Loss of Colonial Rule 118 Gregor Thum: Imperialists in Panic: The Evocation of Empire at Germany’s Eastern Frontier around 1900 138 Botakoz Kassymbekova and Christian Teichmann: The Red Man’s Burden: Soviet European Officials in Central Asia in the 1920s and 1930s 164 Martin Shipway: Age of Anxiety: Imperial Helplessness and Imagined Futures of the Late Colonial State in Southeast Asia after 1945 188 Acknowledgments 211 Notes on Authors 212 Back Cover 213 Body ..............7 Imperial Projections and Piecemeal Realities Multiethnic Empires and the Experience of Failure in the Nineteenth Century..............21 Hapless Imperialists and Resentful Nationalists Trajectories of Radicalization in the Late Ottoman Empire..............47 The Uncanny Fear and the Supernatural in the Colonial Short Fiction by Rudyard Kipling and Somerset Maugham ..............68 Welcome to the Jungle Imperial Men Inner Africa and Mental Disorder in Colonial Discourse..............92 Tropenkoller Male SelfControl and the Loss of Colonial Rule..............117 Imperialists in Panic The Evocation of Empire at Germanys Eastern Frontier around 1900..............137 Up to now, the Age of High Imperialism (1850-1950) has been seen as a period characterized by the unchallenged economic, technological and military superiority of European colonial powers. This volume, however, highlights another, far less studied aspect of this era, namely, the empires' frustration, vulnerability and anxiety in pursuit of their imperial goals. The chapters of this book deal with the relationship between failing colonial ventures and the loss of imperial control on the one side, and overcompensation and the turn towards excessively violent methods of rule on the other