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Magic Lantern Empire examines German colonialism as a mass cultural and political phenomenon unfolding at the center of a nascent, conflicted German modernity. John Phillip Short draws together strands of propaganda and visual culture, science and fantasy to show how colonialism developed as a contested form of knowledge that both reproduced and blurred class difference in Germany, initiating the masses into a modern market worldview. A nuanced account of how ordinary Germans understood and articulated the idea of empire, this book draws on a diverse range of sources: police files, spy reports, pulp novels, popular science writing, daily newspapers, and both official and private archives.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.

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 février 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780801468230
Langue	English
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MagicLanternEmpire

ColonialismandSocietyin Germany

JOHNPHILLIPSHORT

C o r n e l l U n i v e rs i t y P r e s s Ithaca&London

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Short, John Phillip, 1967– Magic lantern empire : colonialism and society in Germany / John Phillip Short. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8014-5094-5 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Germany—Colonies—Public opinion—History. 2. Imperialism—Germany— Public opinion—History. 3. Imperialism—Social aspects—Germany—History. 4. Popular culture—Germany—History. 5. Public opinion—Germany—History. I. Title. JV2011.S56 2012 325'.343—dc23 2012021098

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Empire as World and Idea: Colonialism and Society in Germany 1 Estrangement: Structures and Limits of the Colonial Public Sphere 2 World of Work, World of Goods: Propaganda and the Formation of Its Object 3 No Place in the Sun: The People’s Empire 4 Carnival Knowledge: Enlightenment and Distraction in the Cultural Field 5 Ethnographic-Fantastic: Working-Class Readers at the Colonial Library 6 The Hottentot Elections: Colonial Politics, Socialist Politics Magic Lantern Empire: Reflections on Colonialism and Society

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Acknowledgments

I haveincurred many debts in the time it has taken to complete this work, many more than I can adequately acknowledge here, in far-flung places from Namibia to New York and across Germany. I am grateful for their patience and knowledge to the staffs of so many institutions: chief among them the New York Public Library, Butler Library of Columbia University, the Li-brary of Congress, the Staatsbibliothek Berlin, the Deutsche Bücherei, the Bayrische Staatsbibliothek, the Stadt- und Staatsbibliothek Augsburg, the Ruhrland Museum, the Markt- und Schaustellermuseum Essen, the Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg, the Swakopmund Museum, Swakopmund, Na-mibia, and federal, state, and municipal archives in Berlin, Leipzig, Munich, Bamberg, Nuremberg, and Augsburg. Lengthy and painstaking research in so many places would not have been possible without the financial support of the German Academic Exchange Service. VolkerBerghahn,AtinaGrossmann,andMarciaWrighthelpedmetoelaborate and focus this project from its very beginnings. Since then, parts of the manuscript have profited from a diverse range of sensibility and in-sight, both within my narrow field and beyond it. Thanks to Ritu Birla, Andreas Eckl, David Kurnick, Sara Pugach, Joe Rezek, and to my colleagues in the Department of History. Particular thanks to Molly O’Donnell for her extraordinary generosity in sharing her transcriptions of women’s letters from the federal archive in Berlin, as for our many conversations. Friends in Berlin—Christina Gehlsen, Peter König, Niko Härting—and fellow sojourn-ers there—Mark Landsman and Jenny Weisberg—transformed my experi-ence of that city. Mark Ferketish I can hardly thank enough for his invaluable technical assistance, steadiness, and good nature in putting the manuscript together. I owe profound thanks to the staff at Cornell, especially Susan Specter, Gavin Lewis, and Lou Robinson for the many transformations they have wrought. I am grateful to my editor at Cornell, John Ackerman, for the extraordinary care and interest he has shown, and to the reviewers for their encouragement, deep expertise, and incisive comments. And,finally,toChadKia,alwaysthere,fierceandlaughingbyturns.

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