Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- ONE Introduction -- Continuity and Ideology in the Historiography of German Imperialism -- Imperialism and the Autonomy of Politics -- Ideology in Modern Political Systems -- Structure -- Functions -- TWO The Origins of the German Imperialist Ideologies -- Migrationist Colonialism 21 -- Economic Imperialism -- The Colonial Movement of the 1870s and 1880s -- THREE Wilhelmian Politics: The Role of Ideology in a Fragmented Society -- Perceptions of Change -- Wilhelmian Politics and Political Fragmentation -- The Search for a New Politics -- FOUR Weltpolitik -- The Weltpolitik -- The Structure of Weltpolitik -- Social Imperialism and Liberal Imperialism -- FIVE Lebensraum -- The Elements of Lebensraum -- Lebensraum and the Pan-German League -- SIX Imperialist Ideologies in Conflict, 1890-1914 -- Colonial Development Policy -- Mittelafrika and the Second Moroccan Crisis -- SEVEN Legitimation and Integration in Wilhelmian Imperialism, 1890-1914 -- The Legitimation of German Imperialism -- Attempts at Integration in Imperialist Ideology -- EIGHT The First World War -- Weltpolitik and War Aims -- Lebensraum at War -- Weltpolitik and Reform -- The Triumph of Lebensraum in 1917-18 -- NINE Imperialist Ideology in the Weimar Republic -- Continuities in Weltpolitik -- Continuity and Change in Lebensraum Ideology -- Colonialism and the Colonial Movement -- Geopolitics -- Hans Grimm and the Popularization of Lebensraum -- TEN Nazi Imperialism -- Nazi Ideology -- The Imperialist Aspect of Nazi Ideology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.