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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. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details

Centering on cases of sexual violence, this book illuminates the contested introduction of British and French colonial criminal justice in the Pacific Islands during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on Fiji, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu/New Hebrides. It foregrounds the experiences of Indigenous Islanders and indentured laborers in the colonial court system, a space in which marginalized voices entered the historical record. Rape and sexual assault trials reveal how hierarchies of race, gender and status all shaped the practice of colonial law in the courtroom and the gendered experiences of colonialism. Trials provided a space where men and women narrated their own story and at times challenged the operation of colonial law. Through these cases, Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific highlights the extent to which colonial bureaucracies engaged with and affected private lives, as well as the varied ways in which individuals and communities responded to such intrusions and themselves reshaped legal practices and institutions in the Pacific.With bureaucratic institutions unable to deal with the complex realities of colonial lives, Stevens reveals how the courtroom often became a theatrical space in which authority was performed, deliberately obscuring the more complex and violent practices that were central to both colonialism and colonial law-making. Exploring the intersections of legal pluralism and local pragmatism across British and French colonialization in the Pacific, this book shows how island communities and early colonial administrators adopted diverse and flexible approaches towards criminal justice, pursuing alternative forms of justice ranging from unofficial courts to punitive violence in order to deal with cases of sexual assault

From the 1850s, as the United States pushed west, Chinese migrants met ordinary Americans for the first time. Alienation and xenophobia lost the US this chance for cultural and economic enrichment-but America gave the Chinese new perspectives and connections. They developed a dream of their own.As teenagers, Hugo Wong s great-grandfathers fled poverty in China for California. A decade later, they were excluded from the States. They helped establish a Chinese settlement across the border in Mexico, led by a world-famous dissident-in-exile with visions of a New China overseas. They would be among the Americas first Chinese magnates, meeting with presidents, generals and missionaries, living through astonishing victories and humiliating defeats. The bitterest of all would be the colony s tragic demise amid a violent Mexican revolution, leading to the largest massacre and deportation of Chinese in American history.This epic 100-year drama follows the lives of the author s ancestors, via untouched personal papers. Though no Chinese group had ever gained such influence over a Western population and territory, their home in Mexico would long be forgotten. Today, this family story is reborn: one of nationhood, state racism and a turbulent century; of exile, grit and new ways of belonging

Von den wilden Anfängen der Frankfurter Schule zum neuen Denken: Das gepflegte Café Laumer in Frankfurt-Westend wurde im Sommer 1930 zum Treffpunkt einer illustren Gruppe: Von der geselligen Atmosphäre angelockt, trafen hier die Anhänger des Instituts für Sozialforschung auf den Kreis um Karl Mannheim und Norbert Elias. Die gegensätzlichsten Positionen prallten aufeinander, während in einem Punkt bemerkenswerte Einigkeit herrschte: In der Soziologie sah man die neue Königsdisziplin. Man riskierte einen völlig anderen Blick, befreite sich vom hochgestochenen metaphysischen Denken und wollte endlich die "wirkliche Welt" betrachten.Wolfgang Martynkewicz verfolgt die Lebenswege der prominenten Diskutanten des "Kränzchens" von ihren Anfängen über das Exil bis in die junge Bundesrepublik und führt anschaulich vor Augen, wie die Revolutionierung der Lebensart mit der Revolutionierung des Denkens einherging.Mit Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Paul und Hannah Tillich, Gisèle Freund, Max Horkheimer u.v.a. (Verlagsinformation)

Angesichts begrenzter Ressourcen und ökologischer Krisen zielt die Energiewende heute auf die Dekarbonisierung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, auf ein neues Zeitalter, in dem die Kohle keine Rolle mehr spielt. Gerade diese hehre Absicht verdeutlicht, dass es eine Ära gegeben haben muss, in der Kohle für die Menschheit überaus wichtig war: die "Kohlezeit". Helge Wendt zeichnet sie als eine globale Wissensgeschichte über das Material, seine Förderung, Lagerung und Nutzung, verbunden mit politischen Fragen und sozialen Strukturen. Beginnend im Europa der frühen Neuzeit, beleuchtet sein Buch Fragen, die in Lateinamerika genauso diskutiert wurden wie im Asien und Afrika des späten 19. Jahrhunderts. Besonders in den Kolonien europäischer Staaten - so Wendts innovativer Ansatz - zeigte sich, wie in der Kohlezeit Wissen und Macht, Praxis und Problemlösungen, fossile Energiewende und Wirtschaft in grossen und kleinen räumlichen Konstellationen zusammenwirkten

Für viele Deutsche war der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine der Anlass, diesen zweitgrößten Flächenstaat Europas erstmals als Akteur in der europäischen Geschichte wahrzunehmen. Doch für die Ukrainer ist dieser Konflikt nur der vorläufige Höhepunkt in einer langen Reihe von Versuchen, ihr Land als selbstständiges Staatswesen auf die Landkarte zu bringen. Anna Veronika Wendland entfaltet in diesem Buch, so kenntnisreich wie thesenstark, das gesamte Panorama der ukrainischen Geschichte von den Anfängen im mittelalterlichen Kyjiw über die frühneuzeitlichen Staatsbildungsversuche bis hin zu den katastrophalen Erfahrungen des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Kriege und Gewalt spielten in der immer wieder unterbrochenen Nationsbildung der Ukraine eine genauso prägende Rolle wie die friedlichen Phasen des Sich-Arrangierens mit den Nachbarn oder sogar des Profitierens von der Oberherrschaft des russländischen Imperiums oder der Sowjetunion. In diesem Wechselspiel entwickelten die Ukrainer ihre spezifischen Verfassungstraditionen und Freiheitsvorstellungen – und wurden so von einem Bauernvolk unter fremden Herren zu einer modernen, pluralistischen Industrienation, die sich heute ihrer Haut in einem Krieg gegen die Atommacht Russland erwehrt.

"Grave sites not only offer the contemporary viewer the physical markers of those remembered but also a wealth of information about the era in which the cemeteries were created. These markers hold keys to our historical past and allow an entry point of interrogation about who is represented, as well as how and why. Grave History is the first volume to use southern cemeteries to interrogate and analyze southern society and the construction of racial and gendered hierarchies from the antebellum period through the dismantling of Jim Crow. Through an analysis of cemeteries throughout the South-including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Virginia, from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries-this volume demonstrates the importance of using the cemetery as an analytical tool for examining power relations, community formation, and historical memory. Grave History draws together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, including historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, and social-justice activists to investigate the history of racial segregation in southern cemeteries and what it can tell us about how ideas regarding race, class, and gender were informed and reinforced in these sacred spaces. Each chapter is followed by a learning activity that offers readers an opportunity to do the work of a historian and apply the insights gleaned from this book to their own analysis of cemeteries. These activities, designed for both the teacher and the student, as well as the seasoned and the novice cemetery enthusiast, encourage readers to examine cemeteries for their physical organization, iconography, sociodemographic landscape, and identity politics"--