Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919

Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Contents
List of Illustrations
	Figures
	Maps
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I Absent-Minded Empire, 1875–1897
	1 Frontier Empire: The United States
		Gustav Schmoller and the University Germanosphere
		Labor Frontiers – Henry Farnam and American Trade Unionism
		From Strasbourg to Minnesota – Max Sering in North America
		Contiguous Colonies
		Hermann Schumacher and Ernst von Halle in Chicago
		The American Challenge
	2 Island Empire: Japan
		Prussians in Edo
		The Meiji Six Society and ''German Studies''
		From Strasbourg to Tokyo – Karl Rathgen in Japan
		Political Economy at Tokyo University
		The Association School and the Reform of Japanese Law
		''Yellow Peril''
	3 World Economy: China and Venezuela
		Naval Arms, Neutrality, and the Erosion of Security
		From Berlin to Peking – Hermann Schumacher in China
		Karl Rathgen, Imperial Preference, and the Threat of ''Panamerica''
		The Venezuela and Transvaal Crises
		From Hamburg to Caracas – Ernst von Halle in Venezuela
		Germany at the Crossroads
Part II Empire Imagined, 1897–1907
	4 World Policy
		Naval Dreams
		From Weltwirtschaft to Weltpolitik
		Alfred Tirpitz
		Bernhard von Bülow
		Bülow's Weltpolitik
		The Fleet Professors
	5 The High Seas Fleet and Power Politics
		The Spanish-American War and the Samoa Question
		The Second Navy Bill and the Free Union for Naval Lectures
		Gustav Schmoller: Germany's Economic Future
		Max Sering: The Trade Policy of the Great States
		Ernst von Halle: The German Shipping Industry
		Hermann Schumacher: Germany's Interests in China
		Germany as Hammer or Anvil
	6 National Efficiency and the New Mercantilism
		The ''Yangtze Accord'' and Anglo-German Estrangement
		National Efficiency
		Blue Riband
		The Bülow Tariff and the New Mercantilism
		The Politics of Anglo-German Trade
		The New Fleet Politics
	7 Formal and Informal Empire
		Weltpolitik and the German Colonies - Karl Helfferich
		The Baghdad Railway
		The Retreat of ''Germandom'' in Japan
		The Second Venezuela Crisis
		Inventing the ''German Menace''
		The Russo-Japanese War
		Full Steam to Bankruptcy
	8 Empire in Crisis
		The Colonial Crisis
		The ''Hottentot Elections''
		The Colonial-Political Action Committee
		The Colonial-Political Guide and The Railways of Africa
		The Baghdad Railway and the Young Turks – Karl Helfferich in Constantinople
		The Kaiser's Professor – Hermann Schumacher in New York
		The American Empire
Part III Empire Lost, 1908–1919
	9 Colonial Dreams
		Bernhard Dernburg's Colonial Reforms
		Karl Rathgen and the Hamburg Colonial Institute
		Tropical Fever – Hermann Schumacher in Southeast Asia
		Morocco and Espirito Santo
		King Leopold's Ghost in Dixie – Karl Rathgen in the American South
		Inner Colonization
		Max Sering and Hermann Schumacher in Russia
		Karl Helfferich and the Balkan Shatterbelt
	10 World Policy Contained
		Fleet Enthusiasm
		Deterrent Illusions
		Financial Reform and the Limits of Professorial Politics
		The Baghdad Railway and Mesopotamian Oil
		''World Policy and No War!''
	11 From World Policy to World War
		The Last Roosevelt Professor
		July Crisis
		The End of Weltwirtschaft
		The U-Boat Professors
	12 War Aims, Peace Resolutions, and Defeat
		Weltpolitik by Other Means
		''New Germany''
		The Jewish Question
		The Friends of the Fatherland
		Elusive Peace
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
	Manuscript Sources
	Published Primary Sources
		Official Records and Documents
		Selected Books and Pre-1930 Literature
	Selected Secondary Sources
Index