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955925
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b710295
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Perras, Arne.
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Carl Peters and German imperialism, 1856-1918 : : a political biography /\ Arne Perras.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Clarendon Press,, 2004.
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| Series Statement
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Oxford historical monographs
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1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) :: illustrations.
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| ISBN
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0191514721
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: 1280838337
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: 661083833X
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: 9780191514722
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: 9781280838330
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: 9786610838332
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0199265100
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9780199265107
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-274) and index.
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| Contents
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Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. ACADEMIC LAURELS AND EMPTY POCKETS: PETERS'S EARLY YEARS (1856-1883) -- School and University -- The English Experience -- Schopenhauer, Darwin, and Peters's 'Reconciliation of Philosophy and Science' -- 2. THE QUEST FOR EAST AFRICA (1884-1885) -- The Beginning of Peters's Colonial Agitation -- 'At Last, at Last!': Bismarck's Bid for Colonies -- Three Men and a Map: Pegging out a 'German India' -- Peters's Usagara Expedition and the Imperial Charter -- 3. 'FROM THE NYASSA TO THE NILE': PETERS AND THE GERMAN EAST AFRICA COMPANY (1885-1887).
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5. AFTER BISMARCK: THE HELIGOLAND-ZANZIBAR AGREEMENT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (1890-1891) -- Imperial Politics and the Making of the Pan-German League -- Literary Images of Colonial Heroism -- 6. KING OR PAWN? PETERS ON KILIMANJARO (1891-1892) -- Marealle's New Ally -- Machine-gun Diplomacy and Illusions of Control: Peters's March against the Warombo -- Deterrence through Execution: The Hangings of Mabruk and Jagodjo -- German Defeat and the Subjugation of Meli: The 'Bülow-Disaster' and its Aftermath -- 7. COLONIAL SCANDAL (1892-1897) -- The Uncomfortable Candidate -- Peters's Career on Ice.
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'Always Full Steam Ahead': Naval Agitation and the Transvaal Crisis -- 'And Brutus is an Honourable Man': The Fall -- 8. STRUGGLING FOR A POLITICAL COMEBACK (1897-1918) -- Wilhelm's First Act of Grace -- Literary Success: England und die Engländer -- Peters's Libel Suits and a Second Act of Grace -- 9. TOWARDS NEW GLORY (1919-1945) -- Weimar and Colonial Revisionism: The Odyssey of a Monument -- Hitler and Peters's Final Rehabilitation -- 'The Great Educator of the German Nation' -- 10. PETERS'S DISPUTED LEGACY AFTER 1945 -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G.
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Bismarck, Peters, and the Hamburg Merchants -- Bismarck, Peters, and the German Banks -- 'Furor Teutonicus': Peters, the Missions, and the German National League of Women -- The Drummer: Pan-German Agitation for the Colonial Cause -- Rivalry and Partition: Germany, Britain, and the Sultanate of Zanzibar -- 'Haven't You Shot a Negro Yet?': German Stations on the Mainland -- The Zanzibar Mission: Peters and the Making of the Coastal Treaty -- 4. RESCUING EMIN PASHA (1888-1890) -- Expansionist Designs and Imperial Politics: The Making of the Emin Pasha Committee -- The German Emin Pasha Expedition.
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| Abstract
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Carl Peters (1856-1918) ranked among Germany's most prominent imperialists in the nineteenth century. He became known as the founder of Deutsch-Ostafrika, a region many Germans saw as the pearl of their overseas possessions, and his memory was revered in Nazi Germany. This biography reveals his role in Germany's colonial expansion. - ;Carl Peters (1856-1918) ranked among Germany's most prominent imperialists in the Bismarckian and Wilhelmine periods. In the 1880s he emerged as a leader of the colonial movement and became known as the founder of Deutsch-Ostafrika, a region many Germans regarded.
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Peters, Carl,1856-1918.
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Peters, Carl,1856-1918.
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Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft.
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Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft.
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Colonial administrators-- German East Africa, Biography.
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Imperialism-- History.
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Politicians-- Germany, Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Political.
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Colonial administrators.
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Diplomatic relations.
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German colonies.
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Imperialism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Colonialism Post-Colonialism.
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Politicians.
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Imperialisme.
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Germany, Colonies, Africa, History.
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Germany, Foreign relations, 1848-1870.
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Germany, Foreign relations, 1871-1918.
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Africa, German East Africa.
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Africa.
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Germany.
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| Dewey Classification
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325/.343/092B
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| LC Classification
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DD231.P4P47 2004eb
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