Background Article Max Sering and Max Weber 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.
Background Article New villages for the future of the “German East” Around the year 1900, the Prussian State built dozens of villages in its Eastern provinces. Countless people travelled to these settlements in search of quite different things: a farm of their own, rural charm, a national identity or colonial expertise.
