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Germany's wild East : constructing Poland as colonial space
Kopp, Kristin LeighAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.In the 19th and early 20th centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilised without the aid of external intervention. These depiction's often made direct reference to the American Wild West, portraying the eastern steppes as a boundless plain that needed to be wrested from the hands of unruly natives and spatially ordered into German-administrated units. While conventional definitions locate colonial space overseas, Kristin Kopp argues that it was possible to understand both distant continents and adjacent Eastern Europe as parts of the same global periphery dependent upon Western European civilising efforts. However, proximity to the source of aid translated to greater benefits for Eastern Europe than for more distant regions.
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Germany's wild east : constructing Poland as colonial space
Kopp, Kristin LeighAnn Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2012."In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often made direct reference to the American Wild West, portraying the eastern steppes as a boundless plain that needed to be wrested from the hands of unruly natives and spatially ordered into German-administrated units. While conventional definitions locate colonial space overseas, Kristin Kopp argues that it was possible to understand both distant continents and adjacent Eastern Europe as parts of the same global periphery dependent upon Western European civilizing efforts. However, proximity to the source of aid translated to greater benefits for Eastern Europe than for more distant regions."--Project Muse.In the 19th and early 20th centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilised without the aid of external intervention. These depiction's often made direct reference to the American Wild West, portraying the eastern steppes as a boundless plain that needed to be wrested from the hands of unruly natives and spatially ordered into German-administrated units. While conventional definitions locate colonial space overseas, Kristin Kopp argues that it was possible to understand both distant continents and adjacent Eastern Europe as parts of the same global periphery dependent upon Western European civilising efforts. However, proximity to the source of aid translated to greater benefits for Eastern Europe than for more distant regions.
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Germany, east
Vallance, J. (John), 1770-18231795Map of eastern Germany; relief shown by hachures. In upper margin: Pl. II. Probably issued in: The general atlas for Carey's edition of Guthrie's G...
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Dresden
Clarke, W. B.1833Plan of the city of Dresden in the German state of Saxony. Includes a comparison of the principal buildings in Dresden.
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Germania Magna : quæ nunquam Romanis paruit
Macpherson, David, 1746-18161806At top of map: Geographiæ antiquæ tab. XXI. Map of Greater Germany east of the Rhine during the time of the Roman Empire, showing locations of trib...
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