The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s. Learning Empire looks at German worldwide entanglements to recast how we interpret German imperialism, the origins of the First World War, and the rise of Nazism.
The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s. Learning Empire looks at German worldwide entanglements to recast how we interpret German imperialism, the origins of the First World War, and the rise of Nazism.
Erik Grimmer-Solem is Professor in the Departments of History and German Studies at Wesleyan University, Connecticut. He is the author of numerous works including The Rise of Historical Economics and Social Reform in Germany (2003). He was a University of Chicago Harper Fellow and has received awards from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust, as well as two distinguished teaching prizes from Wesleyan University, Connecticut. His research on the Wehrmacht's involvement in the Holocaust was discussed in the newsweekly Der Spiegel, and debated in German parliament in 2014.
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Introduction Part I. Absent-Minded Empire, 1875-1897: 1. Frontier empire: the United States 2. Island empire: Japan 3. World economy: China and Venezuela Part II. Empire Imagined, 1897-1907: 4. World policy 5. The High Seas Fleet and power politics 6. National efficiency and the new mercantilism 7. Formal and informal empire 8. Empire in crisis Part III. Empire Lost, 1908-1919: 9. Colonial dreams 10. World policy contained 11. From world policy to world war 12. War aims, peace resolutions, and defeat Epilogue.
Introduction Part I. Absent-Minded Empire, 1875-1897: 1. Frontier empire: the United States 2. Island empire: Japan 3. World economy: China and Venezuela Part II. Empire Imagined, 1897-1907: 4. World policy 5. The High Seas Fleet and power politics 6. National efficiency and the new mercantilism 7. Formal and informal empire 8. Empire in crisis Part III. Empire Lost, 1908-1919: 9. Colonial dreams 10. World policy contained 11. From world policy to world war 12. War aims, peace resolutions, and defeat Epilogue.
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