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Germany's Wild East: Constructing Poland as Colonial Space
University of Michigan Press, 2012 Paper: 978-0-472-03682-0 | eISBN: 978-0-472-02858-0 | Cloth: 978-0-472-11844-1 Library of Congress Classification DD120.P7K67 2012 Dewey Decimal Classification 303.48243043809
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often made direct reference to the American Wild West, portraying the eastern steppes as a boundless plain that needed to be wrested from the hands of unruly natives and spatially ordered into German-administrated units.
While conventional definitions locate colonial space overseas, Kristin Kopp argues that it was possible to understand both distant continents and adjacent Eastern Europe as parts of the same global periphery dependent upon Western European civilizing efforts. However, proximity to the source of aid translated to greater benefits for Eastern Europe than for more distant regions. See other books on: Colonies in literature | German literature | Germans | Poland | Territorial expansion See other titles from University of Michigan Press |
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Germany's Wild East: Constructing Poland as Colonial Space
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University of Michigan Press, 2012
Paper: 978-0-472-03682-0
eISBN: 978-0-472-02858-0
Cloth: 978-0-472-11844-1
Paper: 978-0-472-03682-0
eISBN: 978-0-472-02858-0
Cloth: 978-0-472-11844-1
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often made direct reference to the American Wild West, portraying the eastern steppes as a boundless plain that needed to be wrested from the hands of unruly natives and spatially ordered into German-administrated units.
While conventional definitions locate colonial space overseas, Kristin Kopp argues that it was possible to understand both distant continents and adjacent Eastern Europe as parts of the same global periphery dependent upon Western European civilizing efforts. However, proximity to the source of aid translated to greater benefits for Eastern Europe than for more distant regions.
While conventional definitions locate colonial space overseas, Kristin Kopp argues that it was possible to understand both distant continents and adjacent Eastern Europe as parts of the same global periphery dependent upon Western European civilizing efforts. However, proximity to the source of aid translated to greater benefits for Eastern Europe than for more distant regions.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
