TY - JOUR
AU - Wildenthal, Lora
AB - 1824 Reviews of Books cis ion making. On the contrary, even Joseph II aban­ the volume so successfully connects ideas of formal doned reformers as soon as they had outlived their empire to later forms of racial thought in Germany. In usefulness or exhibited too much independence. It is fact, most of the essays in the volume do not attempt striking how often the reforms read like confessions of to do so. Rather, they use implicit definitions of helplessness. Von Moser's solution to the empire's ills colonialism that expand that word to mean a fascina­ lay in educational reforms, as if an imperial revival tion with primitivism (Andreas Michel), encounters would happen if only the princes could be trained to with "the Other" (Leslie Morris), racism, or inequality place national interests before their own. In any case, (Sara Friedrichsmeyer). Such inflation of colonialism's it is hard to see how the reformers' stabilizing effect meanings is both the strength and weakness of the was any greater than the success of their proposals. Far cultural studies approach taken here. more powerful was the empire's institutional capacity Part three takes up "imperial fantasies" in West, to frustrate aggressive energies (to paraphrase Mack 
TI - Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, and Susanne Zantop, editors. The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy. (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany.) Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 1998. Pp. vi, 370
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/105.5.1824
DA - 2000-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/sara-friedrichsmeyer-sara-lennox-and-susanne-zantop-editors-the-GM4ix0HW4m
SP - 1824
EP - 1825
VL - 105
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -