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8 - Empire in Crisis

from Part II - Empire Imagined, 1897–1907

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2019

Erik Grimmer-Solem
Affiliation:
Wesleyan University, Connecticut
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After a series of brutal and costly colonial wars in German Africa and legislative impasses in the Reichstag, Chancellor Bülow called new elections in 1906 to forge a stable legislative bloc of liberal and conservative parties. This chapter analyzes how Schmoller, Sering, and the other fleet professors mobilized for this election campaign to support the colonial reform program of the new Colonial Director Bernhard Dernburg as a new prong of “World Policy.” This campaign generated much new imperialist propaganda that would have a lasting impact in Germany. As the colonial crisis subsided, the Baghdad railroad faced new financial and political challenges that Karl Helfferich was called to surmount. Formal professor exchanges between the United States and Germany were initiated to help improve deteriorating relations with the United States, with Hermann Schumacher serving as the first Kaiser Wilhelm Professor to Columbia University from 1906 to 1907. The United States was now an imperial power, and Schumacher’s extensive travel through the country and to Cuba revealed its vast potential but also its challenges to Germany. Strong parallels were suggested with Russia, reinforcing more Eurasian aspirations for German “World Policy.”

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Learning Empire
Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875–1919
, pp. 340 - 388
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Empire in Crisis
  • Erik Grimmer-Solem, Wesleyan University, Connecticut
  • Book: Learning Empire
  • Online publication: 20 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108593908.009
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  • Erik Grimmer-Solem, Wesleyan University, Connecticut
  • Book: Learning Empire
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108593908.009
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  • Empire in Crisis
  • Erik Grimmer-Solem, Wesleyan University, Connecticut
  • Book: Learning Empire
  • Online publication: 20 September 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108593908.009
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