Über den Autor
nMatthew P. Fitzpatrick lives in Adelaide, Australia and is a lecturer in international history at Flinders University. He has published on German liberalism, nationalism, comparative genocide and on German cultural history. He has been a DAAD visiting postgraduate researcher at the University of Münster in Germany and has also taught at the University of New South Wales, the University of Paderborn and the University of Newcastle.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
nList of Abbreviations
nPreface
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nIntroduction
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nPART I: A LIBERAL EMPIRE FOR A LIBERAL NATION
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nChapter 1. National Unification and Overseas Expansion at the Frankfurt National Assembly, 1848 - 1849
nChapter 2. Mythopoesis -Imperialism as Nationalism
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nPART II: RECONFIGURING EMPIRE IN THE 'POST-LIBERAL' ERA
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nChapter 3. Informal Empire and Private Sector Imperialism, 1849-1884
nChapter 4. Bürgerlich Agency and the World of the Verein
nChapter 5. Bismarck and the Socio-Political Context of the Colonial Umschwung
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nPART III: THE TEXTS OF IMPERIALISM
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nChapter 6. Expansionist Agitation after 1849
nChapter 7. Geography and Anthropology in the Service of Imperialism
nChapter 8. Popular Culture and the Transmission of Imperialist Values
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nConclusion
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nBibliography
nIndex
Klappentext
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.
