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Germany's Wild East

Kristin Kopp

2012

Overview

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often made direct reference to the American Wild West, portraying the eastern steppes as a boundless plain that needed to be wrested from the hands of unruly natives and spatially ordered into German-administrated units.While conventional definitions locate colonial space overseas, Kristin Kopp argues that it was possible to understand both distant continents and adjacent Eastern Europe as parts of the same global periphery dependent upon Western European civilizing efforts. However, proximity to the source of aid translated to greater benefits for Eastern Europe than for more distant regions.

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Subject: 19th century / 20th century / Colonialism / Colonies in literature / Eastern / Empires / Europe / Expansionism / German literature / German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism / German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism / Germans / Germans -- Poland -- History / Germany / Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century / Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century / Germany -- Relations -- Poland / Germany -- Territorial expansion -- Philosophy / HISTORY / History and criticism / Intellectual life / Philosophy / Poland / Poland -- Relations -- Germany / Relations / Territorial expansion
• ISBN: 0472118447, 9780472118441, 0472036823, 9780472036820