Carl Peters and German Imperialism 1856-1918: A Political Biography (Oxford Historical Monographs)

Contents......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 11
INTRODUCTION......Page 14
School and University......Page 27
The English Experience......Page 33
Schopenhauer, Darwin, and Peters’s ‘Reconciliation of Philosophy and Science’......Page 38
The Beginning of Peters’s Colonial Agitation......Page 44
‘At Last, at Last!’: Bismarck’s Bid for Colonies......Page 54
Three Men and a Map: Pegging out a ‘German India’......Page 59
Peters’s Usagara Expedition and the Imperial Charter......Page 65
Bismarck, Peters, and the Hamburg Merchants......Page 80
Bismarck, Peters, and the German Banks......Page 88
‘Furor Teutonicus’: Peters, the Missions, and the German National League of Women......Page 94
The Drummer: Pan–German Agitation for the Colonial Cause......Page 99
Rivalry and Partition: Germany, Britain, and the Sultanate of Zanzibar......Page 112
‘Haven’t You Shot a Negro Yet?’: German Stations on the Mainland......Page 125
The Zanzibar Mission: Peters and the Making of the Coastal Treaty......Page 131
Expansionist Designs and Imperial Politics: The Making of the Emin Pasha Committee......Page 144
The German Emin Pasha Expedition......Page 157
Imperial Politics and the Making of the Pan–German League......Page 181
Literary Images of Colonial Heroism......Page 192
Marealle’s New Ally......Page 198
Machine–gun Diplomacy and Illusions of Control: Peters’s March against the Warombo......Page 207
Deterrence through Execution: The Hangings of Mabruk and Jagodjo......Page 210
German Defeat and the Subjugation of Meli: The ‘Bülow-Disaster’ and its Aftermath......Page 213
The Uncomfortable Candidate......Page 218
Peters’s Career on Ice......Page 222
‘Always Full Steam Ahead’: Naval Agitation and the Transvaal Crisis......Page 224
–And Brutus is an Honourable Man’: The Fall......Page 227
Wilhelm’s First Act of Grace......Page 244
Literary Success: England und die Engländer......Page 247
Peters’s Libel Suits and a Second Act of Grace......Page 249
Weimar and Colonial Revisionism: The Odyssey of a Monument......Page 256
Hitler and Peters’s Final Rehabilitation......Page 260
‘The Great Educator of the German Nation’......Page 262
10. PETERS’S DISPUTED LEGACY AFTER 1945......Page 265
CONCLUSION......Page 270
Bibliography......Page 273
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