Robert L. Nelson

Frontiers of Empire

Max Sering, Inner Colonization, and the German East, 1871-1945

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Produktbeschreibung

Frontiers of Empire connects the settlement of the North American West with Germany's colonization of Eastern Europe, through the fascinating biography of Max Sering, a world-famous professor who was present at every major phase in the evolution of Germany's relationship with its eastern frontier.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009235372
• ISBN-10: 1009235370
• Artikelnr.: 74265954

Autorenporträt

Robert L. Nelson is the author of German Soldier Newspapers of the First World War (Cambridge, 2011), and edited Germans, Poland, and Colonial Expansion to the East: 1850 Through the Present (2009). He has won fellowships from the Killam Trust, the Humboldt Foundation, and was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Settler colonialism and how to tell a story: inner colonization and biography
2. The Frontiers of youth: Kaiserreich, part one
3. Career beginnings, eastern interests: Kaiserreich, part two (1883-1897)
4. Settling in: Kaiserreich, part three (1897-1914)
5. The radicalization of inner colonization: world war one, 1914-1918
6. Sering the star: the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933
7. Sering's journey comes to an end: the third Reich (1933-39)
8. The legacy of Max Sering and inner colonization: the second world war and its aftermath
Conclusion.