History 1265 Lecture 13: Lecture 13
28 Sep 2016
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Overview: germany and global imperialism, politics, economics, culture. Percentage of africa under colonial powers rose from 11% in the 1870s to 90% Spain, portugal, and the netherlands had been in the business for centuries. Germany came to be the fourth largest colonial power. Germany colonies had four times the geographic area as the german mainland. Culture: susanne zantop, a german literary scholar. Many germans were writing about the idea of german colonies before colonies even existed. His writings are not untouched by an exoticizing of native peoples, but he writes about racial identities in a way that later leads him to be held as a founding father of. Nazis were more focused on europe rather than on colonies. In the 1960s, during decolonization, german writers finally write critically of german colonization. Bley wrote a scathing critique of the german putting down of the herero uprising, although he did not connect it to the holocaust.
