Duits kolonialisme en nationalisme

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Imperial Germany: colonialism and nationalism


• Colonialism in the 1880s • Imperialism, nationalsm and Weltpolitik • German South-West Africa and the war against the Herero and Nama


• Social imperialism: colonialism motivated by domestic factors • Economic explanation: protectionist policy • Foreign policy: secure Germany‘s position • Attack against „Freisinn“ (liberal party)


German colonies in 1913




• Governmental imperialism (Weltpolitik) • Informal economic imperialism • Radical national imperialism




Middle classes (bourgeoisie)

Old ĂŠlites (Junker, nobility)

Big business

Working class

Government


• „At root, the nationalist phenomenon was a by-product of the change from a traditionalist politics to a modern mass politics – a change whose effects the established parties had not yet properly understood.“



Maharero


Henrik Witbooi





Samuel Maharero



Surviving Hereo coming back from the Omaheke desert



Herero in chains after the war









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