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Dr. Maximilian Klose

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Dr. Maximilian Klose

PostDoc

Project: “Imperial Manhood. Masculinity in US Diplomatic Relations to Germany and Japan in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”

My project combines the history of interimperial diplomacy with gender history. As a case study, it is dedicated to the diplomatic relations between the USA and the German Empire and the Empire of Japan from the 1880s to the end of the First World War. During this period, all three countries developed into economic and colonial superpowers whose political decision-makers underpinned their claims to power among themselves and in relation to their colonial expansion with gender-specific logics and rhetoric. As emerging empires, the three countries occupied a special position in the high imperialism of the late 19th century and became mutually important reference points for their respective global claims to power. The project examines the genesis of global and local notions of masculinity(ies) in order to understand how the experience of imperial rule and inter-imperial relations influenced gender-specific notions of masculinity. In turn, it will examine how these gender conceptions shaped the logic of imperial rule and the self-image of imperial elites.

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