German And United States Colonialism In A Connected World: Entangled Empires

Acknowledgments
Praise For German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 Introduction: Relational Empires
	American Danger
	Relational Field
Part I Portabilities
2 Seapower and Frontier Settlement: Friedrich List’s American Vision for Germany
	The Swabian Reformer and the American Exile
	Liberal Imperialism, Colonialism, Navalism
	A German Settlement Frontier in the Southeast
	Conclusion
3 The Fantasy of Open Space on the Frontier: Max Sering from the Great Plains to Eastern Europe
	Experiencing Frontiers
	Homesteads for Germany: Inner Colonization, 1886 to 1914
	The Creation of Open Frontier: Germany Conquers the East, 1914–1918
	The Legacy of an Eastern Frontier: Sering in the Weimar Years, and the Nadir of Nazi Empire
	Conclusion
4 The Role of US Railroads in the German Expansionist Mindset of Gerhard Rohlfs
	Gerhard Rohlfs and German Africa-Explorers
	The Greatest Manifestation of Industrialized Technology: The Railway in the US and Western Europe
	Locomotive Narration in Africa Without a Railroad
	A Railway to Central Africa: The US Railroads as the Key to German Self-Confidence
	Conclusion
5 Between France, Germany, and the United States: Raymond Aron as a Critical Theorist of Colonialism and Empire
	Biographical Notes on Aron
	On Nazi Imperialism
	On French Colonialism and Decolonization
	On the United States as Rising and Declining Empire
	Conclusion: Aron’s World of Empires
Part II Passages
6 “A Truly Exquisite Little Phrase:” Global Colonialist Visions vs. The “Drang nach Osten”
	Eastern and Western Dreams, 1815 and 1871
	European or Global Expansion, 1871–1914
	From Colonization Schemes to Total Destruction: Eastern Expansionism Between 1914 and 1945
	Conclusion
7 Ruling Classes and Serving Races: German Policies on Land, Labor, and Migration in Trans-Imperial Perspective
	Labor Questions
	Settling People, Creating Landowners
	Unsettling People, Producing Workers
	Controlling People, Directing Migration
	Conclusion
8 How the Südwest Was Won: Transnational Currents of American Agriculture and Land Colonization in German Southwest Africa
	German Imperialism and Africa
	A “New Germany” in Africa
	German Southwest Africa as a Western Frontier
	Conclusion
9 Practicing Empire: Germany’s Colonial Visions in the Pacific Northwest
	“Just Like Frisco’s”: Social Networking in Victoria & Vancouver
	In Search of “Indianer:” Curating Authenticity on the Falke
	The Right to Fish: Salmon Fishing and the Falke
	Return to an “Urban” Setting: Sitka/Sheet’ká, an “American” Outpost
	“Jumping-Ports to East Asia” and “Yankee Entrepreneurial Spirit”: Tourism and Extraction in Coastal Alaska
	Conclusion
Part III Parallels
10 Similarity in Appearance—“Chinaman” in German and American Satire Magazines Around 1900
	Celestial Ladies
	Saving Our Boys
	The Uncurable
	Conclusion
11 “I Almost Pulled Her to My Heart, but…” Competing Masculinities in Karl May’s Wild West Fictions and Their Modern Theatrical Adaptations
	Gender on the Page: May’s Literary Heroes
	Gender on the Stage: Theatrical Adaptations of May’s Literary Heroes
	Gender from Page to Stage
	Conclusion
12 In Service of Empires: Apaches and Askaris as Colonial Soldiers
	Colonial Enlistment: Masculinity, Voluntarism, and Preparation for Violence
	A Sharp Military Instrument: Recruitment and the Labor of Soldiering
	Inside Out, Outside In: Soldiers, Violence, and Belonging
	Conclusion
13 Words and Wars of Conquest: The Rhetoric of Annihilation in the American West and the Nazi East
	Language and Annihilation
	Language and the Limits of Assimilation
	Rhetoric, Punishment, and Atrocity in the US West
	Rhetoric, Punishment, and Atrocity in the Nazi East
	Comparing the Rhetoric and the Reality of Warfare the American West and the Nazi East
Part IV Afterwords
14 Empires of Comparison
15 Settler Colonialism and Financial Imperialism: The German and United States Empires in a Global Age
Index