Mapping the Germans
Statistical Science, Cartography, and the Visualization of the German Nation, 1848-1914
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 January 2015
- ISBN 9780198714392
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 241x163x18 mm
- Weight 520 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 black and white images, colour map section 0
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Short description:
Explores the development of statistical science and cartography in Germany between the beginning of the nineteenth century and the start of World War One, examining their impact on the German national identity.
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Mapping the Germans explores the development of statistical science and cartography in Germany between the beginning of the nineteenth century and the start of World War One, examining their impact on the German national identity. It asks how spatially-specific knowledge about the nation was constructed, showing the contested and difficult nature of objectifying this frustratingly elastic concept. Ideology and politics were not themselves capable of providing satisfactory answers to questions about the geography and membership of the nation; rather, technology also played a key role in this process, helping to produce the scientific authority needed to make the resulting maps and statistics realistic. In this sense, Mapping the Germans is about how the abstract idea of the nation was transformed into a something that seemed objectively measurable and politically manageable.
Jason Hansen also examines the birth of radical nationalism in central Europe, advancing the novel argument that it was changes to the vision of nationality rather than economic anxieties or ideological shifts that radicalized nationalist practice at the close of the nineteenth century. Numbers and maps enabled activists to "see" nationality in local and spatially-specific ways, enabling them to make strategic decisions about where to best direct their resources. In essence, they transformed nationality into something that was actionable, that ordinary people could take real actions to influence.
Hansen's book shows that mapping nationality is inherently prone to bias, that statistics can be easily tweaked, and maps can be manipulated for propaganda.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Counting Germans: The Search for a Practical Means to Measure Nationality
Mapping Germans: Making the Cultural Nation Visible
Radical Germans: Demography and Nationalism, 1880-1914
Connecting Germans: The Circuitry of National Knowledge
Defending Germans: Strategies of Intervention
Conclusion: Statistics and Cartography, War and Peace
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