1. Introduction
Maurus Reinkowski und Gregor Thum

2. Imperial Projections and Piece-meal Realities: Multiethnic Empires and the Experience of Failure in the Nineteenth Century
Jörn Leonhard

3. Layered Imperialism in 19th-Century Egypt
Maurus Reinkowski

4. »Helpless« Colonisers in Rudyard Kipling and Somerset Maugham’s Short Stories: the Sustainability of Western Modern Mnstitutions under Examination
Jaine Chemmachery

5. Welcome to the Jungle. Imperial Men, »Inner Africa« and Mental Disorder in 19th and 20th Century Colonial Discourse
Sandra Maß

6. »Wollüstige Grausamkeit.« Male Self-Control and the Loss of Colonial Rule
Eva Bischoff

7. The Evocation of Empire at Germany’s Eastern Frontier around 1900
Gregor Thum

8. The Red Man’s Burden. Soviet European Officials in Central Asia in the 1920s and 1930s
Botagoz Kassymbekova and Christian Teichmann

9. Age of Anxiety: Imperial Helplessness and Imagined Futures of the Late Colonial State in Southeast Asia after 1945
Martin Shipway

Bibliography

Notes on Authors