Helpless Imperialists: Imperial Failure, Fear and Radicalization

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Helpless Imperialists enquires into the relation between imperial exposure, fear, radicalization and violence and highlights moments of peripety bringing imperialist grandeur to collapse. Title Page ......Page 4 Copyright ......Page 5 Table of Contents ......Page 6 Maurus Reinkowski and Gregor Thum: Helpless Imperialists: Introduction......Page 8 Jörn Leonhard: Imperial Projections and Piecemeal Realities: Multiethnic Empires and the Experience of Failure in the Nineteenth Century......Page 22 Maurus Reinkowski: Hapless Imperialists and Resentful Nationalists: Trajectories of Radicalization in the Late Ottoman Empire......Page 48 Jaine Chemmachery: The Uncanny: Fear and the Supernatural in the Colonial Short Fiction by Rudyard Kipling and Somerset Maugham .......Page 69 Sandra Maß: Welcome to the Jungle: Imperial Men, “Inner Africa” and Mental Disorder in Colonial Discourse......Page 93 Eva Bischoff: Tropenkoller: Male Self-Control and the Loss of Colonial Rule......Page 118 Gregor Thum: Imperialists in Panic: The Evocation of Empire at Germany’s Eastern Frontier around 1900......Page 138 Botakoz Kassymbekova and Christian Teichmann: The Red Man’s Burden: Soviet European Officials in Central Asia in the 1920s and 1930s......Page 164 Martin Shipway: Age of Anxiety: Imperial Helplessness and Imagined Futures of the Late Colonial State in Southeast Asia after 1945......Page 188 Acknowledgments......Page 211 Notes on Authors......Page 212 Back Cover ......Page 213