The Shadow of Colonialism on Europe’s Modern Past

Part I. Debating Colonialisms

1. Investigating Colonialism within Europe
Róisín Healy, Enrico Dal Lago

2. Is There a Classical Colonialism?
Mridu Rai

3. Exemplar, Outlier, Impostor? A Reflection on Ireland and the Discourses of Colonialism
Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh

Part II. Colonialism as Nationalisation?

4. Italian National Unification and the Mezzogiorno: Colonialism in One Country?
Enrico Dal Lago

5. Language Policies in the Duchy of Schleswig under Denmark and Prussia
Nils Langer

6. German-Annexed Alsace and Imperial Germany: A Process of Colonisation?
Detmar Klein

7. From Commonwealth to Colony? Poland under Prussia
Róisín Healy

8. Colonialism in the Polish Eastern Borderlands 1919–1939
Christoph Mick

9. The French of Algeria: Can the Colonisers Be Colonised?
Aoife Connolly

10. Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1878–1918: A Colony of a Multinational Empire
Clemens Ruthner

Part III. Colonialism under Communism

11. From Imperial Russia to Colonial Ukraine
Mark Hagen

12. Maps of the Borderlands: Russia and Ukraine
Guido Hausmann

13. Layered Colonialism: Colonisation and Sovietisation in Poland’s Recovered Territories
Paul McNamara

14. Sovietisation, Imperial Rule and the Stalinist Leader Cult in Central and Eastern Europe
Balázs Apor

Keywords: History, Cultural History, Social History, Imperialism and Colonialism, European History, Modern History