Learning empire : globalization and the German quest for world status, 1875-1919 /
The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s, well before Germany acquired a colonial empire or extensive overseas commercial interests. Structured around the figures of five influential economists who shaped the German political landscape, Le...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontier empire: the United States
- Island empire: Japan
- World economy: China and Venezuela
- World policy
- The High Seas Fleet and power politics
- National efficiency and the new mercantilism
- Formal and informal empire
- Empire in crisis
- Colonial dreams
- World policy contained
- From world policy to World War
- War aims, peace resolutions, and defeat.