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Raising Germans in the Age of Empire - Youth and Colonial Culture, 1871-1914 (Hardcover)
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Raising Germans in the Age of Empire - Youth and Colonial Culture, 1871-1914 (Hardcover)
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Raising Germans in the Age of Empire is a cultural history of the
German colonial imagination around the turn of the twentieth
century. Looking beyond the colonialist movement, it focuses on
young Germans who grew up during this era and the various
commercial and educational media through which they daily
encountered the wider world. Using their imaginary colonial
encounters, Jeff Bowersox explores how Germans young and old came
to terms with a globalizing world. Chapters on toys, school
instruction, popular literature, and the Boy Scouts (or Pfadfinder)
reveal how Germans, through mass consumer culture and mass
education, built a definitive association between colonial
hierarchies and Germany's place in the modern age. By 1914 this
colonial sensibility had been accepted as common sense, but it
always remained flexible and vague. It could be adapted to serve
competing and contradictory purposes, ranging from profit and
pedagogical reform to nationalist mobilization and international
socialist solidarity. Thus, as young Germans used images of
imperialism to construct their own fantastical adventures, adults
tried to use those same images to ward off the worst excesses of
industrial modernity and to mold young people into capable and
productive citizens. The result was a chaotic multitude of imagined
empires vying for space in the public arena as Germans debated how
best to raise the next generation of children. Raising Germans in
the Age of Empire explains how colonial visions not only shaped
Germans' engagement with globalization but also determined how they
understood themselves as a modern nation.
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