The Long Shadow of German Colonialism: Amnesia, Denialism and Revisionism

by Henning Melber

From 1884 to 1914, the world's fourth-largest overseas colonial empire was that of the German Kaiserreich. Yet this fact is little known in Germany and the subject remains virtually absent from most school textbooks.

While debates are now common in France and Britain over the impact of empire on former colonies and colonizing societies, German imperialism has only more recently become a topic of wider public interest. In 2015, the German government...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019779582X
• ISBN13: 9780197795828
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"