Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840–1920 PDF
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Colonial Fantasies IMPERIAL REALITIES Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840–1920 LENNY A. UREÑA VALERIO Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities Ohio University Press Polish and Polish-American Studies Series Series Editor: John J. Bukowczyk, Wayne State University Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self, edited by Boz˙ena Shallcross Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939, by Karen Majewski Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979, by Jonathan Huener The Exile Mission: The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish Americans, 1939–1956, by Anna D. 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Wróbel The Borders of Integration: Polish Migrants in Germany and the United States, 1870–1924, by Brian McCook Between the Brown and the Red: Nationalism, Catholicism, and Communism in Twentieth- Century Poland—The Politics of Bolesław Piasecki, by Mikołaj Stanisław Kunicki Taking Liberties: Gender, Transgressive Patriotism, and Polish Drama, 1786–1989, by Halina Filipowicz The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland, by Joanna Mishtal Marta, by Eliza Orzeszkowa, translated by Anna Gąsienica Byrcyn and Stephanie Kraft, with an introduction by Grażyna J. Kozaczka Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction, by Grażyna J. Kozaczka Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840–1920, by Lenny A. Ureña Valerio Series Advisory Board M. B. B. Biskupski, Central Connecticut State University Robert E. Blobaum, West Virginia University Anthony Bukoski, University of Wisconsin-Superior Bogdana Carpenter, University of Michigan Mary Patrice Erdmans, Case Western University Thomas S. Gladsky, Central Missouri State University (ret.) Padraic Kenney, Indiana University John J. Kulczycki, University of Illinois at Chicago (ret.) Ewa Morawska, University of Essex Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University Brian Porter-Szûcs, University of Michigan James S. Pula, Purdue University Northwest Daniel Stone, University of Winnipeg Adam Walaszek, Jagiellonian University Theodore R. Weeks, Southern Illinois University Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840–1920 Lenny A. Ureña Valerio ohio university press athens Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701 ohioswallow.com © 2019 by Ohio University Press All rights reserved To obtain permission to quote, reprint, or otherwise reproduce or distribute material from Ohio University Press publications, please contact our rights and permissions department at (740) 593-1154 or (740) 593-4536 (fax). Printed in the United States of America Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper ƒ ™ 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 5 4 3 2 1 hardcover isbn: 978-0-8214-2373-8 electronic isbn: 978-0-8214-4663-8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available upon request. The Polish and Polish-American Studies Series is made possible by: The Polish American Historical Association and the Stanley Kulczycki Publication Fund of the Polish American Historical Association, New Britain, Connecticut, The Stanislaus A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish and Polish American Studies, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut, The Frank and Mary Padzieski Endowed Professorship in Polish/ Polish American/Eastern European Studies at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, and The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America. Support is also provided by the following individuals: Thomas Duszak (Benefactor) George Bobinski (Contributor) Alfred Bialobrzeski (Friend) William Galush (Friend) Col. John A. and Pauline A. Garstka (Friend) Jonathan Huener (Friend) Grażyna Kozaczka (Friend) Neal Pease (Friend) Mary Jane Urbanowicz (Friend) Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek (Friend) To my mother, Rosa América Valerio, and to the loving memory of my father, Ennio Francisco Ureña Contents List of Illustrations xi Series Editor’s Preface xiii Preface and Acknowledgments xv Guide to Pronunciation xxiii Introduction 1 1. On the Fringes of Imperial Formations The German Civilizing Mission in the Prussian-Polish Provinces 16 2. Disease, Race, and Space 47 3. Intersecting Roads The Medical and Colonizing Missions in German Africa 75 4. “For Your Freedom and Ours” Polish Travel Accounts and Colonial Fantasies in Africa 116 5. Creating the Polish Nation Abroad The Establishment of Polish Colonies in Brazil 148 Conclusion 172 Epilogue 185 Notes 187 Bibliography 245 Index 289
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