German expansionism, imperial liberalism, and the United States, 1776-1945
"This book traces the importance of the United States for German colonialism from the late eighteenth century to 1945, focusing on American westward expansion and racial politics. Jens-Uwe Guettel argues that from the late eighteenth century onward, ideas of colonial expansion played a very imp...
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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- Machine generated contents note: Introduction
- 1. Soil, liberty, and blood : Germans and American westward expansion before 1871
- 2. From theory to practice : German colonialism and American westward expansion before the Great War
- 3. The American South and racial segregation in the German colonies
- 4. America, race, and German expansionism from the Great War to 1945
- Conclusion: Imperial liberalism, Nazi expansionism, and the continuities of German history.