Die Grenzen des Vergleichs: Die statistische Vermessung der östlichen Grenzregionen des Kaiserreichs und die Unterschiede deutscher Herrschaft in Übersee und Europa. (German)

This article examines recent research on German rule in Prussian Poland as a formof colonialism. It analyzes the statistical measurement of ethnicity and ethnographic mapping of Germany's eastern borderlands and compares these to similar practices in German South-West Africa. The article argues that whilst the discursive construction of the borderlands is unequivocally interwoven with the colonial experience, Prussia did not succeed in implementing concepts of "race" and colonial visions of space in the East.However, this can be considered as colonial – but this continental colonialism was different from its counterpart in oversea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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