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Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920
Contributor(s): Ureņa Valerio, Lenny A. (Author)

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ISBN: 082142453X     ISBN-13: 9780821424537
Publisher: Ohio University Press
OUR PRICE: $36.70  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Poland
- History | Europe - Germany
- Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism
Physical Information: 320 pages
 
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In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities, Lenny Ure a Valerio offers a transnational approach to Polish-German relations and nineteenth-century colonial subjectivities. She investigates key cultural dynamics in the history of medicine, colonialism, and migration that bring Germany and Prussian Poland closer to the colonial and postcolonial worlds in Africa and Latin America. She also analyzes how Poles in the German Empire positioned themselves in relation to Germans and native populations in overseas colonies. She thus recasts Polish perspectives and experiences, allowing new insights into identity formation and nationalist movements within the German Empire.

Crucially, Ure a Valerio also studies the medical projects and scientific ideas that traveled from colonies to the German metropole, and vice versa, which were influential not only in the racialization of Slavic populations, but also in bringing scientific conceptions of race to the everydayness of the German Empire. As a whole, Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities illuminates nested imperial and colonial relations using sources that range from medical texts and state documents to travel literature and fiction. By studying these scientific and political debates, Ure a Valerio uncovers novel ways to connect medicine, migration, and colonialism and provides an invigorating model for the analysis of Polish history from a global perspective.

 
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