Revenants of the German Empire: Colonial Germans, Imperialism, and the League of Nations

by Sean Andrew Wempe

Book Overview

In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles stripped Germany of its overseas colonies. This sudden transition to a post-colonial nation left the men and women invested in German imperialism to rebuild their status on the international stage. Remnants of an earlier era, these Kolonialdeutsche (Colonial Germans) exploited any opportunities they could to recover, renovate, and market their understandings of German and European colonial aims in order to reestablish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190907215
• ISBN13: 9780190907211
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"