Introduction: Nationalism before the nation state / Dagmar Paulus and Ellen Pilsworth -- Johann Joachim Spalding's 1778 Kriegs-Gebeth : church prayers (Kirchengebete), war prayers (Kriegsgebete), and the patriotic and national discourse in late eighteenth-century Germany / Johan…
"Though the German Nation State was only founded in 1871, the German nation had been imagined long before it ever took political shape. Covering the period from the Seven Years' War to the foundation of the German nation, Nationalism before the Nation State: Literary Constructio…
"Though the German Nation State was only founded in 1871, the German nation had been imagined long before it ever took political shape. Covering the period from the Seven Years' War to the foundation of the German nation, Nationalism before the Nation State: Literary Constructio…
Traces German desires to discover, conquer and dominate 'new worlds' -- real and imagined-- expressed in stories and literature during the century preceding any actual German colonization.
Since Germany became a colonial power relatively late, postcolonial theorists and histories of colonialism have thus far paid little attention to it. Uncovering Germany's colonial legacy and imagination, Susanne Zantop reveals the significance of colonial fantasies - a kind of c…
"Since Germany became a colonial power relatively late, postcolonial theorists and histories of colonialism have thus far paid little attention to it. Uncovering Germany's colonial legacy and imagination, Susanne Zantop reveals the significance of colonial fantasies - a kind of …
