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Berghahn Books Liberal Imperialism in Germany Expansionism and Nationalism 1848-1884 2008 Edition by Matthew P. Fitzpatrick
In a work based on new archival, press, and literary sources, the author revises the picture of German imperialism as being the brainchild of a Machiavellian Bismarck or the "conservative revolutionaries" of the twentieth century. Instead, Fitzpatrick argues for the liberal origins of German imperialism, by demonstrating the links between nationalism and expansionism in a study that surveys the half century of imperialist agitation and activity leading up to the official founding of Germany's colonial empire in 1884. Table of contents :- List of AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroductionPART I: A LIBERAL EMPIRE FOR A LIBERAL NATIONChapter 1. National Unification and Overseas Expansion at the Frankfurt National Assembly, 1848 - 1849Chapter 2. Mythopoesis -Imperialism as NationalismPART II: RECONFIGURING EMPIRE IN THE 'POST-LIBERAL' ERAChapter 3. Informal Empire and Private Sector Imperialism, 1849-1884Chapter 4. Burgerlich Agency and the World of the VereinChapter 5. Bismarck and the Socio-Political Context of the Colonial UmschwungPART III: THE TEXTS OF IMPERIALISMChapter 6. Expansionist Agitation after 1849Chapter 7. Geography and Anthropology in the Service of ImperialismChapter 8. Popular Culture and the Transmission of Imperialist ValuesConclusionBibliographyIndex