A Deterritorialized History: Investigating German Colonialism ...

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43 Berghahn, Imperial Germany, 266.
44 Taylor, Germany’s First Bid for Colonies, 3.
45 Geiss, 49-50.
46 The Young Historical School of economics included thinkers like Gustav von
Schmoller, Werner Sombart and Max Weber.
47 The DKG was never a large group, counting only 41,000 members in 1912. Pierard,
373.
48 Fritz Stern, Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichröder, and the building of the German
Empire (New York: Knopf, 1977), 396, 412-416, 435.
49 R1001 Reichskolonialamt. 9 Deutsch-Südwestafrika. 9.23 Vermischtes. Mflm
79499/1996. Auswärtiges Amt, Kolonialabteilung. Letter from Reichskanzler to
Kaiserlich Deutsches Consulat Capstadt, 28 April 1884.
50 Müller, 135. Schröder, 7-8.
51 J.H. Esterhuyse, South West Africa, 1880-1894: The Establishment of German
Authority in South West Africa (Cape Town: C. Struik, 1968), 46. Wehler, Bismarck
und Imperialismus, 258. Bismarck called the colonies “Versorgungsposten.”
118
52 Taylor, Germany’s First Bid for Colonies. Townsend, The Rise and Fall of Germany’s
Colonial Empire. Mary Evelyn Townsend, The Origins of Modern German Colonialism:
1871-1885 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1921). William O. Aydelotte,
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53 Merrit, 115.
54 Pogge von Strandmann, “Domestic Origins of Germany’s Colonial Expansion,” 142,
159. Wehler, Bismarck und Imperialismus, 20.
55 Friedrich von Holstein, The Holstein Papers. Second Volume. eds. Norman Rich and
M.H. Fisher. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955-1963), 161. This specific
entry is from 19 September 1884. Bismarck was reported to have used the word
Schwindel which was translated into the English “sham.”