Frontiers of Empire: Max Sering, Inner Colonization, and the German East, 1871–1945

Author:   Robert L. Nelson (University of Windsor, Ontario)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   332
Publication Date:   25 January 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Frontiers of Empire: Max Sering, Inner Colonization, and the German East, 1871–1945


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How did the homesteads and reservations of the Prairies of Western North America influence German colonization, ethnic cleansing and genocide in Eastern Europe? Max Sering, a world-famous agrarian settlement expert, stood on the Great Plains in 1883 and saw Germany's future in Eastern Europe: a grand scheme of frontier settlement. Sering was a key figure in the evolution of Germany's relationship with its eastern frontier, as well as in the overall transformation of the German Right from the Bismarckian 1880s to the Hitlerian 1930s. 'Inner colonization' was the settlement of farmers in threatened borderland areas within the nation's boundaries. Focusing on this phenomenon, Frontiers of Empire complicates the standard thesis of separation between the colonizing country and the colonized space, and blurs the typical boundaries between colonizer and colonized subjects. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

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Author:   Robert L. Nelson (University of Windsor, Ontario)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009235365


ISBN 10:   1009235362
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   25 January 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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'In this brilliant volume, Nelson masterfully reconstructs the complex, consequential, and hitherto obscure life of the settlement planner Sering. As Sering outfitted the colonial gaze with what Nelson calls 'utopian goggles', the resulting reverberations were global, shifting, and disastrous for Germany and Eastern Europe.' Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, University of Tennessee 'In Frontiers of Empire, Robert Nelson brings new insight and clarity to one of the most important, but also baffling, phenomena of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the tangled web of global settler colonialism, German overseas imperialism, and Nazi genocide. He does so by focusing on the fascinating life of Max Sering, one of the spiders who spun this web and remained at its center the whole time.' Angela Elisabeth Zimmerman, The George Washington University


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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.

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