Liberal Imperialism in Germany

by Fitzpatrick, Matthew P.

• ISBN13: 9781845455200
• ISBN10: 1845455207
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

In a work based on new archival, press and literary sources, the author revises the picture of German imperialism as being the brainchild of a Machiavellian Bismarck or the conservative revolutionaries of the twentieth century. Instead, Fitzpatrick argues for the liberal origins of German imperialism, by demonstrating the links between nationalism and expansionism in a study that surveys the half century of imperialist agitation and activity leading up to the official founding of Germany s colonial empire in 1884. Matthew P. Fitzpatrick lives in Adelaide, Australia and is a lecturer at Flinders University. He has published on German liberalism, nationalism, and on German cultural history.

Author Biography

Matthew P. Fitzpatrick lives in Adelaide, Australia and is a lecturer at Flinders University. He has published on German liberalism, nationalism, and on German cultural history. He has been a DAAD visiting postgraduate researcher at the University of Mnnster in Germany and has also taught at the University of Paderborn and the University of Newcastle.

Table of Contents

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Introduction Part
A Liberal Empire for a Liberal Nation
National Unification and Overseas Expansion at the Frankfurt National Assembly, 1848-1849
Mythopoesis - Imperialism as Nationalism
Liberal Imperialism in the "Post-Liberal" Era
Informal Empire and Private Sector Imperialism, 1849-1884
Burgerlich Agency and the World of the Verein, 1849-1884
Bismarck and the Sociopolitical Context of the Colonial "Umschwung"
The Texts of Imperialism
Expansionist Agitation after 1849	p. 135
Geography and Anthropology in the Service of Imp erialism	p. 160
Popular Culture and the Transmission of Imperialist Values	p. 177
Conclusion	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 212
Index	p. 234
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