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Author Ureña Valerio, Lenny A., 1977- author.

Title Colonial fantasies, imperial realities : race science and the making of Polishness on the fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920 / Lenny A. Ureña Valerio.

Publication Info. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series
Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American studies series.
Contents On the fringes of imperial formations : the German civilizing mission in the Prussian-Polish provinces -- Disease, race, and space -- Intersecting roads : the medical and colonizing missions in German Africa -- "For your freedom and ours" : Polish travel accounts and colonial fantasies in Africa -- Creating the Polish nation abroad : the establishment of Polish colonies in Brazil.
Summary "In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities, Lenny Ureña 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, Ureña 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, Ureña 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Polish people -- Germany -- History.
Polish people.
Germany.
History.
Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History.
Imperialism -- Social aspects.
Imperialism.
Physical anthropology -- Germany -- History.
Physical anthropology.
Racism in anthropology -- Germany -- History.
Racism in anthropology.
Racism in medicine -- Germany -- History.
Racism in medicine.
Germany -- Relations -- Poland.
Relations.
Poland.
Poland -- Relations -- Germany.
Germany -- Ethnic relations -- History.
Ethnic relations.
Germany -- Race relations -- History.
Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9780821423738 0821423738 (DLC) 2019031323 (OCoLC)1054368029
ISBN 0821446630 (electronic book)
9780821446638 (electronic book)
9780821423738
0821423738