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Magic Lantern Empire
2012,2017
Overview
Magic Lantern Empire
In Short's historical narrative-peopled by fantasists and fabulists, by impresarios and amateur photographers, by ex-soldiers and rank-and-file socialists, by the luckless and bored along the margins of German society-colonialism emerges in metropolitan Germany through a dialectic of science and enchantment within the context of sharp class conflict. He begins with the organized colonial movement, with its expert scientific and associational structures and emphatic exclusion of the \"masses.\" He then turns to the grassroots colonialism that thrived among the lower classes, who experienced empire through dime novels, wax museums, and panoramas. Finally, he examines the ambivalent posture of Germany's socialists, who mounted a trenchant critique of colonialism, while in their reading rooms workers spun imperial fantasies. It was from these conflicts, Short argues, that there first emerged in the early twentieth century a modern German sense of the global.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ Colonies
/ Empires
/ EUROPE
/ Germany
/ Germany -- Colonies -- Public opinion -- History
/ HISTORY
/ Imperialism -- Germany -- Public opinion -- History
/ Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History
/ Popular culture -- Germany -- History
/ Public opinion -- Germany -- History
/ records of the colonial movement
/ social and cultural history of colonialism in germany
/ Society
ISBN
9780801450945, 0801450942, 9780801468223, 0801468221
