This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the German colonial empire and its significance. Leading scholars show not only how the colonies influenced metropolitan life and the character of German politics during the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine eras (1871–1918), but also how colonial mentalities and practices shaped later histories during the Nazi era.

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. German Colonialism Made Simple / Bradley Naranch 1. Empire by Land or Sea? Germany's Imperial Imaginary, 1840-1945 / Geoff Eley 2. Scientific Autonomy and Empire, 1880-1945: Four German Sociologists / George Steinmetz 3. Science and Civilizing Missions: Germans and the Transnational Community of Tropical Medicine / Deborah J. Neill 4. Ruling Africa: Science as Sovereignty in the German Colonial Empire and Its Aftermath / Andrew Zimmerman 5. Who Is the Master Colony? Propriety, Honor, and Manliness in German East Africa / Heike I. Schmidt 6. A New Imperial Vision? The Limits of German Colonialism in China / Klaus Muhlhahn 7. Experts, Migrants, Refugees: Making of the German Colony in Iran, 1900-1934 / Jennifer Jenkins 8. Classroom Colonialism: Race, Pedagogy, and Patriotism in Imperial Germany / Jeff Bowersox 9. Mass-Marketing the Empire: Colonial Fantasies and Advertising Visions / David Ciarlo 10. Colonialism, War, and the German Working Class: Popular Mobilization in the 1907 Reichstag Elections / John Phillip Short 11. Colonialism and the Anti-Semitic Movement in Imperial Germany / Christian S. Davis 12. Internal Colonialism in Germany: Culture Wars, Germanification of the Soil, and the Global Market Imaginary / Sebastian Conrad 13. Pan-German Conceptions of Colonial Empire / Dennis Sweeney 14. Maritme Force and the Limits of Empire: Warfare, Commerce, and Law in Germany and the United States before the First World War / Dirk Bonker 15. The Rhineland Controversy and Weimer Postcolonialism / Brett M. Van Hoesen 16. Colonialism, Imperialism, National Socialism: How Imperial Was the Third Reich? / Birthe Kundrus Bibliography List of Contributors Index

"German Colonialism in a Global Age is a solid contribution to the study of German imperialism. It expands the study of Germany’s colonialist past beyond earlier scholarship. However, its greatest contribution is to provide the wider community of scholars a window (or perhaps more accurately, a number of windows) into current research into the nature of German colonialism as part of the larger European colonial venture." 

"This landmark collection showcases the latest research in many areas of German colonialism. As a state-of-the-art expression of a vibrant field, German Colonialism in a Global Age will set a new benchmark and become a standard reference."