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By employing new ´optics´ and a comparative approach, this book helps us recognize the unexpected and unsettling connections between America´s ´western´ empire and Nazi Germany´s ´eastern´ empire, linking histories previously thought of as totally unrelated and leading readers towards a deep revisioning of the ´American West´ and the ´Nazi East´.

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The American West and the Nazi East is a unique exploration of the conceptual and historical relations between the Early American and Nazi-German national projects of territorial expansion, racial cleansing, and settler colonization in their respective ´western´ and ´eastern´ empires, along with their associated campaigns of extreme political violence against ´native´ indigenous peoples.
Kakel locates the Early American national project in ´the West´ as a central part of the histories of imperialism, colonialism, and genocide, and offers a unique window on to the colonial origins, content, and context of the Nazi national project in ´the East´, including the Holocaust. By asking new questions of supposedly familiar historical events and periods, this book brings to light the unexpected and unsettling connections between the ´American West´ and the ´Nazi East´, and links histories previously thought of as totally unrelated.

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Maps and Illustrations Preface Introduction PART I: CONTINENTAL IMPERIALISM Empire: National Projects of ´Space´ and ´Race´ Racial ´Othering´: ´Manufacturing Difference´ PART II: SETTLER COLONIALISM Conquest and Expansion: ´Obtaining´ New ´Living Space´ Colonization: ´Peopling´ the Empire ´Out-Group´ Policy: ´Eliminating´ the ´Natives´ PART III: FRONTIER GENOCIDE War and Genocide: ´Cleansing´ the Lebensraum Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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"This book provides a valuable and uncharted insight into two dark moments of history. Kakel deserves considerable credit for tackling such an important and scarcely addressed topic. ... Kakel´s work provides a fascinating and detailed assessment of two atrocity-laden nationalist projects and does so by unearthing profound insight without obscuring the individual histories. Any scholar of transnational history would do well to read this work and incorporate its lessons and approach into their own work and teaching models." (Derrick J. Angermeier, H-War, H-Net Reviews, March 2018)

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Carroll P. Kakel, III (´Pete´)  is a research historian and lecturer at The Johns Hopkins University Centre for Liberal Arts, USA. He has an MA in Holocaust Studies (with distinction) and a PhD in Modern History from Royal Holloway, University of London.

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