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The first comprehensive study of the topic. Follows the reception and impact of Völkerpsychologie, both in Germany and abroad. Traces the genealogy of concepts currently used in the social sciences and humanities, e.g. 'identity', and explains the circumstances of their inception. Challenges the notion that Völkerpsychologieis and/or was an uniquely German phenomenon.

Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Germans exhibited a widespread cultural passion for tales and representations of Native Americans. This book explores the evolution of German national identity and its relationship with the ideas and cultural practices around \"Indianthusiasm.\" Pervasive and adaptable, imagery of Native Americans was appropriated by Nazi propaganda and merged with exceptionalist notions of German tribalism, oxymoronically promoting the Nazis' racial ideology. This book combines cultural and intellectual history to scrutinize the motifs of Native American imagery in German literature, media, and scholarship, and analyzes how these motifs facilitated the propaganda effort to nurture national pride, racial thought, militarism, and hatred against the Allied powers among the German populace.

How did East and West Germany and Japan reconstitute national identity after World War II? Did all three experience parallel reactions to national trauma and reconstruction? History education shaped how these nations reconceived their national identities. Because the content of history education was controlled by different actors, history education materials framed national identity in very different ways. In Japan, where the curriculum was controlled by bureaucrats bent on maintaining their purported neutrality, materials focused on the empirical building blocks of history (who? where? what?) at the expense of discussions of historical responsibility. In East Germany, where party cadres controlled the curriculum, students were taught that World War II was a capitalist aberration. In (West) Germany, where teachers controlled the curriculum, students were taught the lessons of shame and then regeneration after historians turned away from grand national narratives. This book shows that constructions of national identity are not easily malleable on the basis of moral and political concerns only, but that they are subject to institutional constraints and opportunities. In an age when post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation has become a major focus of international policies, the analysis offers important implications for the parallel revision of portrayals of national history and the institutional reconstruction of policy-making regimes. 1. The Determinants of Portrayals of the Nation in History Education 2. The Re-Nationalization of History in East German Education 3. Rationalizing Portrayals of the Nation in (West) German History Education 4. Japanese Bureaucrats and Empiricist Textbook Historiography 5. Portrayals of the Nation in Japanese and German History Education Explained Julian Dierkes is an Associate Professor and the Keidanren Chair in Japanese Research at the University of British Columbia’s Institute of Asian Research where he teaches Asia Pacific Policy Studies. Dr. Dierkes’ current research focuses on a sociological analysis of supplementary education (\"juku\") in Japan.

German identity began to take shape in the late Middle Ages during a period of political weakness and fragmentation for the Holy Roman Empire, the monarchy under which most Germans lived. Between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, the idea that there existed a single German people, with its own lands, language and character, became increasingly widespread, as was expressed in written works of the period. This book - the first on its subject in any language - poses a challenge to some dominant assumptions of current historical scholarship: that early European nation-making inevitably took place within the developing structures of the institutional state; and that, in the absence of such structural growth, the idea of a German nation was uniquely, radically and fatally retarded. In recounting the formation of German identity in the late Middle Ages, this book offers an important new perspective both on German history and on European nation-making.

German colonialism is a thriving field of study. From North America to Japan, within Germany, Austria and Switzerland, scholars are increasingly applying post-colonial questions and methods to the study of Germany and its culture. However, no introduction on this emerging field of study has combined political and cultural approaches, the study of literature and art, and the examination of both metropolitan and local discourses and memories. This book will fill that gap and offer a broad prelude, of interest to any scholar and student of German history and culture as well as of colonialism in general. It will be an indispensable tool for both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. . INTRODUCTION Between Amnesia and Denial. Colonialism and German National Identity Juergen Zimmerer and Michael PERRAUDIN (Sheffield) SECTION 1: Colonialism before the Empire Imperialism, Race and Genocide at the Paulskirche: Origins, Meanings, Trajectories Brian VICK (Sheffield); Time, Identity and Colonialism in German Travel Writing, 1848-1914: Gustav Nachtigal’s ‘Sahara und Sudan’ and Leo Frobenius’s ‘Und Afrika Sprach’ Tracey DAWE (Durham); Performing the Metropolitan ‘habitus’ in Africa. Some Notes on the Praxis of European Travellers in 19th-Century Eastern and Central Africa Michael PESEK (Berlin) SECTION 2: Local Histories, Local Memories Communal Memory Events and the Heritage of the Victims Reinhart KÖßLER (Bochum); Commemorating the Past--Building the Future: The Churches and the Centenary of the Genocide in Namibia Hanns LESSING (Dortmund); Narratives of a ‘Model Colony’: German Togoland in Written and Oral Histories Dennis LAUMANN (Memphis) SECTION 3: Heroic Discourses in the Imperial Centre Germany’s War in China: Media Coverage & Political Myth Yixu LU (Sydney); Genocide in German South-West Africa: an Overview of the Discussion it Generated Robin Krause (Clark University); Abuses of German Colonial History: the Character of Carl Peters as Weapon for Völkisch and National Socialist Discourses: Anglophobia, Anti-Semitism, Aryanism Constant KPAO SARE (Saarland) SECTION 4: Colonialism and German Literature Fraternity, Frenzy and Genocide. War Literature and the Colonial ‘Other’ Jörg LEHMANN (Berlin); Representing German Colonial Interventions in Poland Kristin KOPP (Missouri); A Spotlight on a Dark Chapter in German History: Criticism of German Colonialism in Uwe Timm’s novel ‘Morenga’ and its Reception by the West German Public Esther ALMSTADT (Bremen) SECTION 5: Colonialism and Popular Culture Exotic Education: Writing Empire for German Boys and Girls, 1884-1914 Jeffrey BOWERSOX (Toronto); Picturing Genocide in German Consumer Culture, 1904-1910 David CIARLO (MIT, Boston); ‘Greetings from Africa’--The Visual Representation of Blackness under German Imperialism Volker LANGBEHN (San Francisco) SECTION 6: Colonialism after the End of Empire ‘Loyal Askari’ and ‘Black Rapist’--Two Images in the German Discourse on National Identity and their Impact on the Lives of Black People in Germany, 1918-1945 Susanne LEWERENZ (Hamburg); ‘Denkmalsturz.’ The German Student Movement and German Colonialism Ingo CORNILS (Leeds); Reflections on the Idea of ‘Colonial Amnesia’ in post-1945 West Germany Monika ALBRECHT (Münster); The Persistence of (Colonial) Fantasies Wolfgang STRUCK (Erfurt) SECTION 7: The Transnational Dimension The Herero Genocide and Politics of Memory Dominik SCHALLER (Heidelberg); Vergangenheitsbewältigung à la française. (Post-)Colonial memories of the Herero Genocide and 17 October, 1961 Kathryn JONES (Swansea); Beyond Empire: German Women in Africa 1919-1933 Britta SCHILLING (Oxford) SECTION 8: Mainstreaming Colonialism Colonialism and the Simplification of Language: Germany’s ‘kolonial-deutsch’ Experiment Kenneth OROSZ (Maine); Aspects of German Identity in the African Colonies: the Role of the Local Press Elisabeth SCHMIDT (Paris); Torn between Two Lovers: the Intercultural Discipline ‘Germanistik’ in Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa? Arndt WITTE (Maynooth) Notes Bibliography Index Juergen Zimmerer is Professor of History at the University of Hamburg in Germany. His areas of research and publication include German Colonialism, Genocide Studies, the Holocaust and African and Global History. Michael Perraudin is Professor of German at the University of Sheffield, and has previously taught at Trinity College, Dublin, and the University of Birmingham. His research focus is on 19th-century German literature, especially that of the Biedermeier/Vormärz, and its social and political contexts. His books include Literature, the ‘Volk’ and the Revolution in Mid-19th-Century Germany (Oxford: Berghahn, 2000) and Formen der Wirklichkeitserfassung nach 1848. Deutsche Literatur und Kultur vom Nachmärz bis zur Gründerzeit in europäischer Perspektive (co-edited with Helmut Koopmann, Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2003). He has also published numerous articles on 19th- and 20th-century literary authors. \"This volume offers a snapshot of the variety of activities, research areas, research interests, and approaches emerging in the field of postcolonial studies with regard to Germany and the German colonial legacy. The twenty-two articles are all remarkably short, concrete, and informative; several afford insights into larger research projects.\" – Florian Krobb, National University of Ireland, Maynooth \"This broadly based, clearly structured, and highly integrated essay collection constitutes an excellent overview of the central points of the growing scholarly discourse on Germany's colonial past. The volume provides a well-focused snapshot of contemporary German colonialism studies and could ideally serve both as a reader for college or university courses on these matters or an orientation guide for scholars new to the field.\" - Hans J. Rindisbacher, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms

01 02 This monograph is a detailed linguistic analysis of the discourse of German nationalism, colonialism and Anti-Semitism using a methodological framework devised by Ruth Wodak et al., the Discourse Historical Approach. It pays particular attention to the discourse strategies, argumentation topoi and metaphors used by a selection of representative authors of both political propaganda and fiction. The study shows how the analysis of linguistic and social behaviour and the connection between them sheds light on the nature and effects of human behaviour, and on the motives and reasoning behind human actions. Within the context of nationalism and prejudiced behaviours, the construction in discourse of individual and group 'self-images' and the discursive means of contrasting these with 'other-images' is of major significance. It is widely believed that a self-image can only be formed if an image of a so-called \"Other\" exists as a focus of contrast and (frequently) suspicion and antipathy, which in extreme cases can lead to fear and hatred. Fear and hatred of the 'Other' in the form of racism and racial anti-Semitism, and the discursive representation of these, is therefore a major focus of this study. 13 02 FELICITY RASH Professor of German Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Her research interests lie chiefly within the field of Historical Discourse Analysis, and she has published on the political propaganda of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Paul Rohrbach and Adolf Hitler. Her most recent monograph is The Language of Violence , a close linguistics analysis of Hitler's Mein Kampf with its chief emphasis upon the use of metaphors. 02 02 This book provides a detailed linguistic analysis of the nationalist discourses of the German Second Reich, which most effectively demonstrate the contrasting images of the German Self and its various Others, such as Jews, native Africans, gypsies and the enemy Other during the First World War. 19 02 An original work of detailed linguistic analysis on German nationalist and anti-semitic discourse in the period leading up to the rise of Hitler Highlights the use of argumentation strategies and metaphors and uses up-to-date Critical Discourse Analysis methodology Examines political propaganda and literature of the period Deals with socio/cultural issues as well as linguistic ones to offer a broad and cross disciplinary perspective Includes a number of examples from rare source texts 04 02 Foreword Methodological Framework Self-identity, Otherness and Nationalism Racism in Discourse Anti-Semitism in Discourse Colonialism in Discourse Discourse in War-Time Conclusion 16 02 Reisigl& Wodak. Discourse and Discrimination , Routledge (2000). £90/27.99.   Not focused on German/antisemitic discourse only. A broader study of racist/discriminating discourse.   There are also a large number of books on German Nationalism/Colonialism or Identity that are historical in focus, and thus don't highlight study of the discourse. Likewise there are a number of books more generally on political discourse (including a number of Palgrave books) that don't provide this kind of detailed analysis of German nationalism. Rash's own other book, The Language of Violence (Peter Lang, 2006) is a study of Hitler's Mein Kampf. 31 02 A detailed linguistic analysis of the discourse of German nationalism, colonialism and Anti-Semitism using the Discourse Historical Approach to analyse discourse strategies of political propaganda

These essays do not assume the primacy of national allegiance. Instead, by using the ?sense of place? as a prism to look at German identity in new ways, they examine a sense of ?Germanness? that was neither self-evident nor unchanging.

During the twentieth century, Germans experienced a long series of major and often violent disruptions in their everyday lives. Such chronic instability and precipitous change made it difficult for them to make sense of their lives as coherent stories—and for scholars to reconstruct them in retrospect. Ruptures in the Everyday brings together an international team of twenty-six researchers from across German studies to craft such a narrative. This collectively authored work of integrative scholarship investigates Alltag through the lens of fragmentary anecdotes from everyday life in modern Germany. Across ten intellectually adventurous chapters, this book explores the self, society, families, objects, institutions, policies, violence, and authority in modern Germany neither from a top-down nor bottom-up perspective, but focused squarely on everyday dynamics at work \"on the ground.\"

The eight chapters in Nationalism before the Nation State: Literary Constructions of Inclusion, Exclusion, and Self-Definition (1756-1871) explore how the German nation was imagined from the beginning of the Seven Year's War to the nation's political foundation in 1871.

This volume examines mutual ethnic and national perceptions and stereotypes in the Middle Ages by analysing a range of historical sources, with a particular focus on the mutual history of Germany and Poland.