Laboratorien für die Moderne? Die deutschen Kolonien als Versuchsfeld einer urbanen und gesellschaftlichen Neugestaltung

The article investigates the German 19th-century colonialism and in its wake, the attempts to create new social spaces in the colonies; spaces where concepts of an utopian character were tested. Related to it, the reactions of the local cultures are looked at, alongside with the vista of the colonizing culture upon them.