Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Reinventing Poland as German Colonial Territory in the Nineteenth Century: Gustav Freytag’s Soll und Haben as Colonial Novel

Chapter 3 The Prussian Settlement Commission and Its Activities in the Land Market, 1886–1918

Chapter 5 Putting the East in Order: German Historians and Their Attempts to Rationalize German Eastward Expansion during the 1930s and 1940s

Chapter 6 The Languages of Occupation: Vocabularies of German Rule in Eastern Europe in the World Wars

Chapter 7 The Conquest of Nature and the Mystique of the Eastern Frontier in Nazi Germany

Chapter 8 The Threatening Other in the East: Continuities and Discontinuities in Modern German-Polish Relations