Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities - Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920 (Urena Valerio Lenny A.)(Paperback / softback)

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
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