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Revenants of the German empire : colonial Germans, imperialism, and the League of Nations

Title: Revenants of the German empire : colonial Germans, imperialism, and the League of Nations / Sean Andrew Wempe.
Author: Wempe, Sean Andrew
Publication: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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Description

xiv, 288 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Revenants of a Fallen Empire reveals the various ways in which Colonial Germans attempted to cope with the loss of the German colonies after the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. These Kolonialdeutsche (Colonial Germans) had invested substantial time and money in German imperialism. German men and women from the former African colonies exploited any opportunities they could to recover, renovate and market their understandings of German and European colonial aims in order to reestablish themselves as "experts" and "fellow civilizers" in European and American discourses on nationalism and imperialism. Colonial officials, settlers, and colonial lobbies made use of the League of Nations framework to influence diplomatic flashpoints including the Naturalization Controversy in South African-administered Southwest Africa, the Locarno Conference, and German participation in the Permanent Mandates Commission from 1927-1933. Sean Wempe revises standard historical portrayals of the League of Nations' form of international governance, German participation in the League, the role of interest groups in international organizations and diplomacy, and liberal imperialism. In analyzing Colonial German investment and participation in interwar liberal internationalism, the project also challenges the idea of a direct continuity between Germany's colonial period and the Nazi era"--

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A question of respectability : colonial German responses to the Treaty of Versailles and "colonial guilt" -- "O Afrika, meine Seele ist in dir geblieben" : Heimat and citizenship for German settlers in the 1920s -- "Echte Deutsche" or "half-baked Englishmen" German Southwest African settlers and the naturalization crisis, 1922-1924 -- Grasping for a "great new future" : the German colonial lobbies in search of a united platform -- From "unfit imperialists" to "fellow civilizers" : German colonial officials on the Permanent Mandates Commission -- "The faithful hounds of imperialism" Heinrich Schnee on the League's Manchurian commission.

Call Number

JFE 19-9260

ISBN

9780190907211
0190907215

LCCN

2018042430

OCLC

1080249314

Author

Wempe, Sean Andrew, author.

Title

Revenants of the German empire : colonial Germans, imperialism, and the League of Nations / Sean Andrew Wempe.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

JFE 19-9260

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