Cover -- Contents -- Introduction (Uta Fenske and Bärbel P. Kuhn) -- I. Overseas Colonialism -- Understanding Overseas Colonialism as a Process: An Introduction (S. Karly Kehoe) -- Potatoes, Coffee and Sugar - The Foreign from "Overseas" Changes Europe (Reinhard Wendt) -- Potatoes - The Foreign from the Colonies Becomes One's Own (Susanne Popp and Miriam Hannig) -- Coffee - The Foreign Becomes Part of the "Western" Lifestyle in Europe (Susanne Popp and Miriam Hannig) -- Sugar - The Foreign is Copied (Susanne Popp and Miriam Hannig) -- Colonialism and the Caribbean: Wealth, Power and the British Imperial State (S. Karly Kehoe, Ben H. Shepherd, Nelson Mundell and Louise Montgomery) -- Economic Aspects of Colonialism: A Caribbean Case Study (S. Karly Kehoe, Ben H. Shepherd, Nelson Mundell and Louise Montgomery) -- Swiss Emigrants in 19th Century Brazil: Ambivalent Entanglements with Structures of Slavery (Philipp Marti and Bernhard C. Schär) -- II. Inner-European Hegemonic Relations and Entanglements as Colonialism? -- Inner-European Colonialism: An Introduction (Claudia Kraft) -- The Case of Lutheranism in Estonian History - From External Determination to People's Church (Andres Andresen and Anu Raudsepp) -- Images of Poland in Germany in the Late 18th and the 19th Centuries: Precondition of Colonial Power Relations? (Klaus-Michael Guse, Claudia Kraft, Daniel Groth and David Schäfer) -- Making Sense of Postcolonial Theories and Applying them to the Relationship between Eastern and Western Europe (Klaus-Michael Guse, Claudia Kraft, Daniel Groth and David Schäfer) -- German Colonial Policy in Greater Poland (19th and 20th Centuries) (Przemysław Damski and Katarzyna Czekaj-Kotynia) -- Inner-Polish Politics in Kresy during the Interwar Period: An Example of Inner-European Colonialism? (Przemysław Damski and Katarzyna Czekaj-Kotynia).

III. Decolonization and Independence Movements -- Decolonization, the Cold War and Development Aid: An Introduction (Bernhard C. Schär) -- Between a Brotherly Union and Colonialism - Poland in the USSR Sphere of Influence (Katarzyna Czekaj-Kotynia) -- The Representation of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and his Speech on 30 June 1960 (Congolese Independence Day) - Food for Controversy (Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse and Idesbald Goddeeris) -- Immigration to Estonia after World War II (Jaak Valge and Anu Raudsepp) -- The Case of the Secret Uranium Factory in Sillamäe (Hillar Toomiste and Anu Raudsepp) -- Reasons for Appeasement: The British Empire (S. Karly Kehoe, Ben H. Shepherd, Nelson Mundell and Louise Montgomery) -- Switzerland and Rwanda: A Troublesome Partnership (Philipp Marti and Bernhard C. Schär) -- IV. Memory Politics -- Postcolonial Collective Memory Cultures in Europe. A Fragmented, Divided and National-Bound Landscape: An Introduction (Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse and Idesbald Goddeeris) -- Why "colonialism" as a concept causes confusion, and exploration of alternatives within historiography (Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse and Idesbald Goddeeris) -- Congo in Flemish/Belgian and Postcolonial Belgian/Congolese Collective Memory (Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse and Idesbald Goddeeris) -- Who Owns the Polish Past? Polish History Seen From Western European and Polish Points of View (Klaus-Michael Guse, Claudia Kraft, Daniel Groth and David Schäfer) -- Colonial Patterns of Interpretation in Swiss Comics (Philipp Marti and Bernhard C. Schär) -- Acknowledgments -- Authors.