Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany

Informationen zum Autor Sebastian Conrad is Professor of Modern History at the Free University of Berlin. Klappentext Translation of award-winning study of the development of German nationalism in a global context. Zusammenfassung German society and the dynamics of German nationalism were profoundly changed prior to 1914 by the exchange of goods and capital! imperial expansion! the circulation of people and ideas and the integration of labour markets. This is the first account to set German nationalism within the process of globalisation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. German globalisation around 1900; 2. 'Native policy' in the colony and the metropole: 'educating to work' in East Africa and east Westphalia; 3. Between the poles: mobility and nation in Germany's 'real colony'; 4. The politics of segregation: Chinese workers, global networks and the 'colourless peril'; 5. 'Here, the German is not degenerating': Brazil, emigration and the nation's fountain of youth; 6. 'German work'; 7. Regimes of territorialisation and the globalisation of the national; 8. Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Sebastian Conrad, Sebastian (Freie Universitat Berlin) Conrad
• Assisted by: Sorcha O`Hagan (Translation), Sorcha O'Hagan (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.09.2010
• EAN: 9780521177306
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17730-6
• No. of pages: 506
• Series: New Studies in European History; New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education