Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations
Preface

Introduction

PART I: A LIBERAL EMPIRE FOR A LIBERAL NATION

Chapter 1. National Unification and Overseas Expansion at the Frankfurt National Assembly, 1848 - 1849
Chapter 2. Mythopoesis -Imperialism as Nationalism

PART II: RECONFIGURING EMPIRE IN THE 'POST-LIBERAL' ERA

Chapter 3. Informal Empire and Private Sector Imperialism, 1849-1884
Chapter 4. Burgerlich Agency and the World of the Verein
Chapter 5. Bismarck and the Socio-Political Context of the Colonial Umschwung

PART III: THE TEXTS OF IMPERIALISM

Chapter 6. Expansionist Agitation after 1849
Chapter 7. Geography and Anthropology in the Service of Imperialism
Chapter 8. Popular Culture and the Transmission of Imperialist Values

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Matthew P. Fitzpatrick lives in Adelaide, Australia and is a lecturer in international history at Flinders University. He has published on German liberalism, nationalism, comparative genocide and on German cultural history. He has been a DAAD visiting postgraduate researcher at the University of Munster in Germany and has also taught at the University of New South Wales, the University of Paderborn and the University of Newcastle.

Reviews

" This is an important.[and] a very strong book. It successfully challenges older paradigms that separate German liberalism from imperialism or see the conjoining of the two as a late aberration." * German History

"The author's] elegant account...represents a timely and important contribution to the existing literature...[that] represents the most sustained attempt to reframe the argument." * The American Historical Review

"...this is a stimulating work with a solid argument and place in the current historiography. In this, it draws attention to the importance of discourse on overseas expansion within many sectors of the German liberal-nationalist movement." * Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoire

"Fitzpatrick's short but hard-hitting book seeks to reinstate imperialism as a fundamental constituent of German liberalism. As such it is a welcome and worthy addition to Berghahn's invaluable 'Monographs in German History' series." * Central European History