Research Catalog

Title

Colonial fantasies, imperial realities : race science and the making of Polishness on the fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920 / Lenny A. Ureña Valerio.

Author

Ureña Valerio, Lenny A., 1977-

Publication

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2019]

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Details

Description

xxi, 295 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities, Lenny Ureña Valerio offers a transnational approach to Polish-German relations and nineteenth-century colonial subjectivities. She investigates key cultural dynamics in the history of medicine, colonialism, and migration that bring Germany and Prussian Poland closer to the colonial and postcolonial worlds in Africa and Latin America. She also analyzes how Poles in the German Empire positioned themselves in relation to Germans and native populations in overseas colonies. She thus recasts Polish perspectives and experiences, allowing new insights into identity formation and nationalist movements within the German Empire. Crucially, Ureña Valerio also studies the medical projects and scientific ideas that traveled from colonies to the German metropole, and vice versa, which were influential not only in the racialization of Slavic populations, but also in bringing scientific conceptions of race to the everydayness of the German Empire. As a whole, Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities illuminates nested imperial and colonial relations using sources that range from medical texts and state documents to travel literature and fiction. By studying these scientific and political debates, Ureña Valerio uncovers novel ways to connect medicine, migration, and colonialism and provides an invigorating model for the analysis of Polish history from a global perspective"--

Series Statement

Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series

Uniform Title

Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series.

Subjects

• Germany
• Imperialism > Social aspects
• Poland
• Polish people
• Physical anthropology
• Racism in anthropology
• Racism in medicine
• Race relations
• International relations
• Germany > Race relations > History
• History
• Imperialism > Social aspects > Germany > History
• Poland > Relations > Germany
• Polish people > Germany > History
• Germany > Relations > Poland
• Ethnic relations
• Germany > Ethnic relations > History
• Physical anthropology > Germany > History
• Racism in anthropology > Germany > History
• Racism in medicine > Germany > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

On the fringes of imperial formations : the German civilizing mission in the Prussian-Polish provinces -- Disease, race, and space -- Intersecting roads : the medical and colonizing missions in German Africa -- "For your freedom and ours" : Polish travel accounts and colonial fantasies in Africa -- Creating the Polish nation abroad : the establishment of Polish colonies in Brazil.

Call Number

JFE 20-1488

ISBN

• 9780821423738
• 0821423738

LCCN

• 2019031323
• 15726218

OCLC

1054368029

Author

Ureña Valerio, Lenny A., 1977- author.

Title

Colonial fantasies, imperial realities : race science and the making of Polishness on the fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920 / Lenny A. Ureña Valerio.

Publisher

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series

Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Standard Identifier

15726218

Research Call Number

JFE 20-1488