Mobilizing the Archive in Support of Colonialism during the Kaiserreich
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10498396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Purdy (0009-0006-0323-3418, Pennsylvania State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 219-233 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Seminar A Journal of Germanic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1939 • E-ISSN: 1911-026X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/seminar.53.3.03 |
| OpenAlex | W2755648575 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This paper examines how, at the end of the nineteenth century, the German General Staff published archival material about the history of Brandenburg/Prussia’s early modern East Indian and African trading companies in order to garner public support for the Kaiserreich’s new colonial expeditions. The memory of past overseas ventures was mobilized for the sake of creating an historical narrative claiming that Germany had tried to create a colonial empire already in the seventeenth century. This one German example demonstrates how the maintenance and regulation of archives allows states to construct ideological narratives in support of national policy
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |