Max Sering and Max Weber

2024/09/18 by Fabio Wasilewski
Social Sciences · #Agriculture (field of activity) #Central European national history #Colonialism research #Founding of the German Empire #German Reich #Germanization #Germany-Poland relations #Globalization, Historical Perspectives, and International Relations #History of eastern europe #History of science #Imperialism #Inner colonization (Prussia) #Junkertum #Max #Nationalism #Ostpreußen #Province of Posen #Prussia #Racism #Research on historical stereotypes #Sering #Settler colonialism #Silesia #Slavs #Vistula Land #Weber #Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory #West Prussia

paper · doi:10.25355/kfz1-am46

openalex publication_date 2024/09/18 · openalex created_date 2025/12/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01

Abstract

The age of imperialism unleashed a new way of thinking about the Prussian Eastern Provinces and their inhabitants in the German Empire, based on colonial patterns. Among other intellectuals, Max Weber also propagated a colonial image of Poles in both culturalist and racist categories.

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