German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World

Janne Lahti works as an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He specializes in global and transnational histories of settler colonialism, borderlands, the American West, Imperial Germany, and Nordic colonialism.

“The anthology offers excellent special studies on a variety of aspects of transimperial exchange between the United States and Germany. The chapters are written in an accessible manner and are very well documented so that at the points where one might disagree, one always knows what evidence and reasoning the authors base their judgments on.” (Julius Wilm, Comparativ -Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, Vol. 32 (6), 2022)“This is a fine volume that promises to create productive discussions among historians and in the classroom. It clearly demonstrates the global, transnational nature of imperialism and empire by offering comparative analyses of labour recruitment practices, colonial settlements, removal and assimilation policies towards indigenous peoples, and the agents of colonial policies.” (Silke Hackenesch, German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. 44 (1), May, 2022)

• 1. Janne Lahti - Introduction: Globalization and the Shared Histories of Empires.- Part I Settler Spaces.- 2 Gregor Thum - Seapower and Frontier Settlement: Friedrich List’s American Vision for Germany.- 3 Robert L. Nelson - From the Great Plains to Eastern Europe: Max Sering and the Dream of a Germanic Settler Empire.- 4 Jens-Uwe Guettel - The Transition from Necessary to Incidental: American Westward Expansion and the Politics of Space in German Thought from the Kaiserreich to the Nazi Era.- Part II Cultures of Colonialism.- 5 Janne Lahti - Buffalo Bill, Carl Hagenbeck, and Human Exhibitions in United States and Germany.- 6 A. Dana Weber - Masculinities in Karl May’s Wild West Fictions and Their Theatrical Legacies.- 7 Volker Langbehn - Satire Magazines and the Transnational Circulations of Colonial Racism.- 8 Willeke Sandler - Empire and Race in Nazi Periodicals.- Part III Colonial Policies.- 9 Dörte Lerp - Ruling Classes and Serving Races: Transnational Influences and Segregated Agrarian Labor Regimes in the Kaiserreich Empire.- 10 Ulrike Lindner - Segregated Intimacies: Miscegenation in the German Colonies and the American Philippines.- 11Tracey Reimann-Dawe - Transcontinental Railroads as Tools of Colonization in the German African Colonies and the American West.- 12 Michelle Moyd - Race and Military Recruitment Strategies in the German and United States Empires, 1870-1918.- 13 Dirk Bönker - German Weltpolitik, Empire by Sea, and the American Example.- Part IV Violence.- 14 George Steinmetz - Explaining Colonial Genocide: German Southwest Africa and the Ethical and Explanatory Imperatives of the Human Sciences.- 15 Edward B. Westermann - Words and Wars of Annihilation: Military Strategy and Imperial Rhetoric in the American West and the Nazi East.- 16 Björn Krondorfer and Alex Alvarez - Genocidal Colonial Policies in the Nazi East and the American West: What is the Value of Comparisons?.- Afterword.- 17 Andrew Zimmerman - Transnational Intersections of UnitedStates and German Empires.- 18 Sebastian Conrad - Global Empires and Global Histories.