This book takes on a global perspective to unravel the complex
relationship between Imperial Germany and its diaspora. Around
1900, German-speakers living abroad were tied into global
power-political aspirations. They were represented as outposts of a
"Greater German Empire" whose ethnic links had to be preserved for
their own and the fatherland s benefits. Did these ideas fall on
fertile ground abroad? In the light of extreme social, political,
and religious heterogeneity, diaspora construction did not redeem
the all-encompassing fantasies of its engineers. But it certainly
was at work, as nationalism "went global" in many German ethnic
communities. Three thematic areas are taken as examples to
illustrate the emergence of globally operating organizations and
communication flows: Politics and the navy issue, Protestantism,
and German schools abroad as "bulwarks of language preservation."
The public negotiation of these issues is explored for localities
as diverse as Shanghai, Cape Town, Blumenau in Brazil, Melbourne,
Glasgow, the Upper Midwest in the United States, and the Volga
Basin in Russia. The mobilisation of ethno-national diasporas is
also a feature of modern-day globalization. The theoretical
ramifications analysed in the book are as poignant today as they
were for the nineteenth century."
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