Poland in a Colonial World Order

2021-11-18 History

Author : Piotr Puchalski
Release : 2021-11-18
Genre : History
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Download or read book Poland in a Colonial World Order written by Piotr Puchalski. This book was released on 2021-11-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poland in a Colonial World Order is a study of the interwar Polish state and empire building project in a changing world of empires, nation-states, dominions, protectorates, mandates, and colonies. Drawing from a wide range of sources spanning two continents and five countries, Piotr Puchalski examines how Polish elites looked to expansion in South America and Africa as a solution to both real problems, such as industrial backwardness, and perceived issues, such as the supposed overrepresentation of Jews in "liberal professions." He charts how, in partnership with other European powers and international institutions such as the League of Nations, Polish leaders made attempts to channel emigration to South America, to establish direct trade with Africa, to expedite national minorities to far-away places, and to tap into colonial resources around the globe. Puchalski demonstrates the intersection between such national policies and larger processes taking place at the time, including the internationalist turn of colonialism and the global fascination with technocratic solutions. Carefully researched, the volume is key reading for scholars and advanced students of twentieth-century European history.

Beyond Empire

2019

Author : Piotr Puchalski
Release : 2019
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Download or read book Beyond Empire written by Piotr Puchalski. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the ways in which interwar Polish elites addressed a series of real and imagined contemporary problems related to the Colonial Question, which they identified as an irrational division of land and resources around the globe. Emerging from a destructive world conflict, the new Polish state was built on the ruins of three defunct empires, put together from multiple social, economic, legal, and political systems. It dealt with countryside unemployment, lacked the capital necessary for faster industrial development, and managed large national minorities in order to promote the Polish-Catholic character of the nation. Breaking from the traditional historiography, which explores the Polish government's domestic attempts to answer what it constructed as demographic and economic "questions," the dissertation considers state, semi-state, and non-state colonial projects designed and carried out in order to manage emigrant populations and build economic outposts far beyond Poland's borders. In South America, Polish elites addressed the question of emigration by turning Catholic peasant emigrants into "colonists" imagined as acting as the state's economic and political agents. In Africa, they discerned opportunities to drag Poland into "modernity" through trading posts and plantations. By the second half of the 1930s, Africa also offered "solutions" to other "questions": Poland's relationship to non-Europeans, its place in the Wilsonian international system, and its treatment of national minorities, particularly Jews. The chapters of the dissertation progress chronologically to reflect the changing demographic, political, and economic priorities of Polish colonial policies, whose geographic focus changed accordingly from one country to the next. In the years 1918-1939, Polish colonial projects resulted from a cooperation between state agencies, companies, and individuals operating within a larger context of the Wilsonian world order. This monograph provides an in-depth analysis of the ways in which state actions stemmed from compromises between multiple domestic interests and international realities. In addition to illuminating the place of an eastern European state in the Wilsonian world order, however, the dissertation also challenges the traditional interpretations of modern Polish nationalism and anti-Semitism as exclusively right-wing phenomena, showing their external manifestations as occurring across the political spectrum and featuring moments of unexpected inclusivity.

On the Edges of Whiteness

2020-05-01 History

Author : Jochen Lingelbach
Release : 2020-05-01
Genre : History
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Download or read book On the Edges of Whiteness written by Jochen Lingelbach. This book was released on 2020-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors. While intervening in key historical debates across academic disciplines, this book also gives an accessible and memorable account of survival and dramatic cultural dislocation against the backdrop of global conflict.

The Colonial Politics of Global Health

2018-09-10 Medical

Author : Jessica Lynne Pearson
Release : 2018-09-10
Genre : Medical
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Download or read book The Colonial Politics of Global Health written by Jessica Lynne Pearson. This book was released on 2018-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Colonial Politics of Global Health, Jessica Lynne Pearson explores the collision between imperial and international visions of health and development in French Africa as decolonization movements gained strength. After World War II, French officials viewed health improvements as a way to forge a more equitable union between France and its overseas territories. Through new hospitals, better medicines, and improved public health, French subjects could reimagine themselves as French citizens. The politics of health also proved vital to the United Nations, however, and conflicts arose when French officials perceived international development programs sponsored by the UN as a threat to their colonial authority. French diplomats also feared that anticolonial delegations to the United Nations would use shortcomings in health, education, and social development to expose the broader structures of colonial inequality. In the face of mounting criticism, they did what they could to keep UN agencies and international health personnel out of Africa, limiting the access Africans had to global health programs. French personnel marginalized their African colleagues as they mapped out the continent’s sanitary future and negotiated the new rights and responsibilities of French citizenship. The health disparities that resulted offered compelling evidence that the imperial system of governance should come to an end. Pearson’s work links health and medicine to postwar debates over sovereignty, empire, and human rights in the developing world. The consequences of putting politics above public health continue to play out in constraints placed on international health organizations half a century later.

Neither Settler nor Native

2020-11-17 Political Science

Author : Mahmood Mamdani
Release : 2020-11-17
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Neither Settler nor Native written by Mahmood Mamdani. This book was released on 2020-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making the radical argument that the nation-state was born of colonialism, this book calls us to rethink political violence and reimagine political community beyond majorities and minorities. In this genealogy of political modernity, Mahmood Mamdani argues that the nation-state and the colonial state created each other. In case after case around the globe—from the New World to South Africa, Israel to Germany to Sudan—the colonial state and the nation-state have been mutually constructed through the politicization of a religious or ethnic majority at the expense of an equally manufactured minority. The model emerged in North America, where genocide and internment on reservations created both a permanent native underclass and the physical and ideological spaces in which new immigrant identities crystallized as a settler nation. In Europe, this template would be used by the Nazis to address the Jewish Question, and after the fall of the Third Reich, by the Allies to redraw the boundaries of Eastern Europe’s nation-states, cleansing them of their minorities. After Nuremberg the template was used to preserve the idea of the Jews as a separate nation. By establishing Israel through the minoritization of Palestinian Arabs, Zionist settlers followed the North American example. The result has been another cycle of violence. Neither Settler nor Native offers a vision for arresting this historical process. Mamdani rejects the “criminal” solution attempted at Nuremberg, which held individual perpetrators responsible without questioning Nazism as a political project and thus the violence of the nation-state itself. Instead, political violence demands political solutions: not criminal justice for perpetrators but a rethinking of the political community for all survivors—victims, perpetrators, bystanders, beneficiaries—based on common residence and the commitment to build a common future without the permanent political identities of settler and native. Mamdani points to the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa as an unfinished project, seeking a state without a nation.

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