The Long Shadow of German Colonialism Amnesia, Denialism and Revisionism /
From 1884 to 1914, the world's fourth-largest overseas colonial empire was that of the German Kaiserreich. Yet this fact is little known in Germany and the subject remains virtually absent from most textbooks. In 2015, the German government belatedly and half-heartedly conceded that the extermi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
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2024.
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| Summary: | From 1884 to 1914, the world's fourth-largest overseas colonial empire was that of the German Kaiserreich. Yet this fact is little known in Germany and the subject remains virtually absent from most textbooks. In 2015, the German government belatedly and half-heartedly conceded that the extermination policies carried out over 1904-8 in the settler colony of German South West Africa (now Namibia)qualify as genocide. But the recent invigoration of debate on Germany's colonial past has been hindered by continued amnesia, denialism and a populist right endorsing colonial revisionism. Henning Melber presents an overview of German colonial rule and analyses how its legacy has affected and been debated in German society, politics and the media. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781805262725 9780197800515 0197800513 1805262726 |