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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
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Continental Imperialism
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Settler Colonialism
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Frontier Genocide
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“This book provides a valuable and uncharted insight into two dark moments of history. Kakel deserves considerable credit for tackling such an important and scarcely addressed topic. … Kakel’s work provides a fascinating and detailed assessment of two atrocity-laden nationalist projects and does so by unearthing profound insight without obscuring the individual histories. Any scholar of transnational history would do well to read this work and incorporate its lessons and approach into their own work and teaching models.” (Derrick J. Angermeier, H-War, H-Net Reviews, March 2018)
- John K. Roth, Founding Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights at Claremont McKenna College, California, USA
'Although historians have recognized that the Euro-American colonization of North America inspired the Nazi war for "living space," Carroll Kakel's study is the first sustained and detailed comparison of the American West and the Nazi East. These episodes of territorial expansionism, which combined settler colonialism with the expulsion and killing of indigenous people, occurred at different times and they evinced important differences arising from their specific contexts. Nevertheless, their similarities, among them the obsession with "space" as vital to national survival and the desire to expel or eliminate racial "undesirables" which Kakel demonstrates with rich detail and telling side-by-side comparisons, show conclusively that empire and race lay at the foundations of the American Republic, and that American expansionism became the most important imperialist model for the National Socialists.'
- Shelley Baranowski, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Akron, USA
'Shocking as it may be to juxtapose American westward expansion and Nazi eastward expansion, Kakel employs a thorough knowledge of the two histories as well as of Holocaust and genocide studies to present a very unusual comparative history. It is startling, well-researched, and provocative. It deserves a fair-minded and broad readership.'
- Walter Nugent, author of Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion
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Book Title: The American West and the Nazi East
Book Subtitle: A Comparative and Interpretive Perspective
Authors: Carroll P. Kakel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307063
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-27515-7Published: 12 July 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-35273-6Published: 12 July 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-30706-3Published: 12 July 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 310
Topics: European History, Modern History, US History, History of Germany and Central Europe, History of the Americas, Ethnicity Studies