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Germany´s Empire in the East: Germans and Romania in an Era of Globalization and Total War
David Hamlin
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Description for Germany´s Empire in the East: Germans and Romania in an Era of Globalization and Total War
hardcover. The collapse of political and economic order in World War One prompted Germany to turn to empire in Eastern Europe. Num Pages: 364 pages, 12 b/w illus. 1 map 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVWR; HBJD; HBLW; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
This book puts German policy toward Romania and the German East into a global context. One of the signal events of the twentieth century was Germany's effort to construct an empire in Europe modeled on the European experience outside Europe. The turn to European empire resulted less from the dynamics of capitalist expansion than from a deep crisis in global political and economic order. Confronted with the global economic and political power of the western allies, the Germans turned to Eastern Europe to construct a dependent space, tied to Germany as Central America was to the US. The First World ... Read more
This book puts German policy toward Romania and the German East into a global context. One of the signal events of the twentieth century was Germany's effort to construct an empire in Europe modeled on the European experience outside Europe. The turn to European empire resulted less from the dynamics of capitalist expansion than from a deep crisis in global political and economic order. Confronted with the global economic and political power of the western allies, the Germans turned to Eastern Europe to construct a dependent space, tied to Germany as Central America was to the US. The First World ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
358
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107198197
SKU
V9781107198197
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Ref
99-14
About David Hamlin
David Hamlin is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, Fordham University, New York and author of Work and Play: The Production and Consumption of Toys in Germany 1880–1914 (2006).
Reviews for Germany´s Empire in the East: Germans and Romania in an Era of Globalization and Total War
'David Hamlin’s Germany’s Empire in the East: Germans and Romania in an Era of Globalization and Total War is a must-read for scholars interested in nineteenth-and early twentieth-century German and Eastern European history.' Jens-Uwe Guettel, The American Historical Review