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1. Janne Lahti - Introduction: Globalization and the Shared Histories of Empires.- Part I Settler Spaces.- 2 Gregor Thum - Seapower and Frontier Settlement: Friedrich List’s American Vision for Germany.- 3 Robert L. Nelson - From the Great Plains to Eastern Europe: Max Sering and the Dream of a Germanic Settler Empire.- 4 Jens-Uwe Guettel - The Transition from Necessary to Incidental: American Westward Expansion and the Politics of Space in German Thought from the Kaiserreich to the Nazi Era.- Part II Cultures of Colonialism.- 5 Janne Lahti - Buffalo Bill, Carl Hagenbeck, and Human Exhibitions in United States and Germany.- 6 A. Dana Weber - Masculinities in Karl May’s Wild West Fictions and Their Theatrical Legacies.- 7 Volker Langbehn - Satire Magazines and the Transnational Circulations of Colonial Racism.- 8 Willeke Sandler - Empire and Race in Nazi Periodicals.- Part III Colonial Policies.- 9 Dörte Lerp - Ruling Classes and Serving Races: Transnational Influences and Segregated Agrarian Labor Regimes in the Kaiserreich Empire.- 10 Ulrike Lindner - Segregated Intimacies: Miscegenation in the German Colonies and the American Philippines.- 11Tracey Reimann-Dawe - Transcontinental Railroads as Tools of Colonization in the German African Colonies and the American West.- 12 Michelle Moyd - Race and Military Recruitment Strategies in the German and United States Empires, 1870-1918.- 13 Dirk Bönker - German Weltpolitik, Empire by Sea, and the American Example.- Part IV Violence.- 14 George Steinmetz - Explaining Colonial Genocide: German Southwest Africa and the Ethical and Explanatory Imperatives of the Human Sciences.- 15 Edward B. Westermann - Words and Wars of Annihilation: Military Strategy and Imperial Rhetoric in the American West and the Nazi East.- 16 Björn Krondorfer and Alex Alvarez - Genocidal Colonial Policies in the Nazi East and the American West: What is the Value of Comparisons?.- Afterword.- 17 Andrew Zimmerman - Transnational Intersections of UnitedStates and German Empires.- 18 Sebastian Conrad - Global Empires and Global Histories.

<div><p>Janne Lahti works as an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He specializes in global and transnational histories of settler colonialism, borderlands, the American West, Imperial Germany, and Nordic colonialism.&nbsp;</p><br></div>

Explores the entangled, interconnected histories of German and United States colonialism Highlights the many similarities between these two empires, resulting from the global contexts in which they were situated and bound together Brings together a distinguished range of scholars whose chapters organized into four themes: space, cultures, policies and violence

<div>​“Imperial expansion was at its core a nationalist project. Yet, as this important book demonstrates, it was also a project embedded in new global connections. Imperial powers watched one another, learned from one another and competed with one another. As a latecomer to colonialism, Germany in particular became an eagle-eyed observer of its competitors—and no colonial experience seemed more relevant to German imperialists than that of the United States. As historians have revaluated American expansion and German colonialism, these essays provide an eye-opening analysis of the connections between them.” (Sven Beckert, Harvard University)</div><div><br></div><div>“Janne Lahti brings together a fine ensemble of international scholars to look at one of the currently most rewarding fields in imperial history, the history of transimperial entanglements. The volume specifically engages with US-German imperial relations and throws new light on their great historical significance. Lahti'sskillful and gripping introduction immediately draws the reader into the subject matter. His real feat, however, lies in the composition of the contributions that covers broad historical ground and at the same time provides in-depth empirical analysis. A timely and stimulating book at the interface of imperial and global history.” (Roland Wenzlhuemer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)</div><div><br>“This outstanding collection of essays on the many entanglements of Germany and the United States in the age of empire showcases a highly dynamic research field of younger and established scholars that is breaking down the barriers and stale conventions that have long hindered a full understanding of global competitive colonialism. By also challenging the national exceptionalism that has long contained both American and German history, the essays are sure to spark lively debate that will lead to productive new avenues of research.” (Erik Grimmer-Solem, Wesleyan University)&nbsp;</div><p>“<i>Entangled Empires</i> presents global and transnational scholarship at their finest. Full of original research, arresting insights, and powerful case studies, the essays collected here decentre US and German colonialism in compelling ways. In crisp and elegant prose the authors in this superb collection show as never before how the United States and German imperial formations were entangled by flows of knowledge, people, and strategies of colonial domination, and developed relationally with one another. This carefully curated volume showcases how the signature methods of transnational and global history – connected, comparative, and collaborative – offers vital new understandings on imperial formation and the imperial origins of contemporary globality” (Stephen Tuffnell, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford)&nbsp;</p>

<p>“This important collection offers a wealth of thought-provoking essays that open up a long overdue discussion about the myriad ways that U.S. and German colonialism interacted with one another across the long nineteenth century.&nbsp; After reading <i>German and United States Colonialism in a Connected World, </i>it will be impossible to think about U.S. or German history—or, indeed, global history—the same way ever again.” (Karl Jacoby, Columbia University)&nbsp;</p>

<p>“The compelling essays in this rich, wide-ranging volume vividly demonstrate the value of approaching histories of modern colonialism as globally entangled. Focusing on the ways Germans’ perceptions of U. S. empire—as inspiration and model, rival and threat—shaped their understandings of Germany as nation, empire and world power, the essays reveal myriad ways that German visions of settler-colonial rule, racialized power and colonial violence crossed national and imperial boundaries.” (Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University)</p>