Title
Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts: Wilhelmine Imperialism, Overseas Resistance, and German Political Catholicism 1897-1906
Files
Department
History
Description
In "Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts," John S. Lowry demonstrates that anti-imperialist resistance movements overseas significantly shaped the course of Wilhelmine domestic politics between 1897 and 1906. In 1898 and 1900, for example, the consequences of Chinese, Cuban, and Samoan resistance permitted Berlin to steer two large naval laws through the Reichstag by enabling the government to garner critical votes from the Catholic Center Party through pro-Catholic gestures overseas, rather than via repeal of the Anti-Jesuit Law at home. By contrast, after 1903 costly uprisings throughout German-occupied Africa generated acute fiscal concerns among Center Party delegates, and African civilian protests against colonial misrule aroused missionary and Centrist ire. Lowry emphasizes that the ensuing Reichstag dissolution of 1906 arose much more directly from African factors than previous scholarship has recognized.
ISBN
9004233849
Publication Date
2016
Publisher
Brill
City
Boston
Keywords
Cuba; 1898; Tirpitz; Maji; domestic; German; relations; Centrist; 20th; Chinese; 1903; nineteenth; politics; Germany; Namibia; naval; political; 1897; Samoa; Togo; anti; twentieth; Catholic; 1900; Center Party; Nama; Bülow; movements; colonies; law; interactions; Catimperialist misrule, Africa resistance, African missions, missionary, Samoan, anticlericalism, Tanzania, Kaiser, China, 19th, 1906, Berlin, Sino, Reichstag
Disciplines
European History | History | Political History
Recommended Citation
Lowry, John S., "Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts: Wilhelmine Imperialism, Overseas Resistance, and German Political Catholicism 1897-1906" (2016). EKU Faculty and Staff Books Gallery. 7.
https://encompass.eku.edu/fs_books/7
Comments
Studies in Central European Histories (Book 62)