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Frontiers of Empire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2024

Robert L. Nelson
Robert L. Nelson
Affiliation:
University of Windsor, Ontario
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Frontiers of Empire
Max Sering, Inner Colonization, and the German East, 1871–1945
 , pp. i - ii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024
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Frontiers of Empire

How did the homesteads and reservations of the prairies of western North America influence German colonization, ethnic cleansing, and genocide in Eastern Europe? Max Sering, a world-famous agrarian settlement expert, stood on the Great Plains in 1883 and saw Germany’s future in Eastern Europe: a grand scheme of frontier settlement. Sering was a key figure in the evolution of Germany’s relationship with its eastern frontier, as well as in the overall transformation of the German Right from the Bismarckian 1880s to the Hitlerian 1930s. “Inner colonization” was the settlement of farmers in threatened borderland areas within the nation’s boundaries. Focusing on this phenomenon, Frontiers of Empire complicates the standard thesis of separation between the colonizing country and the colonized space and blurs the typical boundaries between colonizer and colonized subjects.

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Robert L. Nelson is the author of German Soldier Newspapers of the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and edited Germans, Poland, and Colonial Expansion to the East: 1850 through the Present (Palgrave, 2009). He has won fellowships from the Killam Trust and the Humboldt Foundation and was a Fulbright Scholar.

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