geschiedenis germans colonialism and nationalism
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Imperial Germany: colonialism and nationalism
• Colonialism in the 1880s• Imperialism, nationalsm and Weltpolitik• German South-West Africa and the war
against the Herero and Nama
• Social imperialism: colonialism motivated by domestic factors
• Economic explanation: protectionist policy• Foreign policy: secure Germany‘s position• Attack against „Freisinn“ (liberal party)
German colonies in 1913
• Governmental imperialism (Weltpolitik)• Informal economic imperialism• Radical national imperialism
Middle classes (bourgeoisie)
Working class
GovernmentBig business
Old élites (Junker, nobility)
• „At root, the nationalist phenomenon was a by-product of the change from a traditionalist politics to a modern mass politics – a change whose effects the established parties had not yet properly understood.“
Maharero
Henrik Witbooi
Samuel Maharero
Surviving Hereo coming back from the Omaheke desert
Herero in chains after the war