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The Servants of Empire: Sponsored German Women's Colonization in Southwest Africa, 1896-1945

The Servants of Empire: Sponsored German Women's Colonization in Southwest Africa, 1896-1945 - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:O'Donnell K. MollyPublish date:2022-12-09Pages:422
Language:EnglishPublisher:Berghahn BooksISBN-13:9781800737990ISBN-10:1800737998UPC:9781800737990Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Africa, Europe, Colonialism & Post-ColonialismBook Topic:South, GermanySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCFA039FE9

Capturing the history of thousands of German women recruited to colonize Southwest Africa between the 1890s and 1940s, The Servants of Empire engages a radical nationalist history of German efforts to prevent interracial unions and establish permanent white settlement. As colonists, sponsored women often supported or even helped perpetrate extreme patterns of racist violence and vigilantism in Namibia, which linked them inextricably to marked atrocities such as the Herero and Nama Genocides. Navigating the intersections of German attitudes toward race, class, ethnicity, gender, and nation, this revealing study traces the German settler community's gossip and rumors to uncover how the many poor white female settlers in Southwest Africa disrupted bourgeois race and gender relations and contributed to the trenchant sexual and racial violence in the territory.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Berghahn BooksISBN-13:9781800737990ISBN-10:1800737998UPC:9781800737990Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Africa, Europe, Colonialism & Post-ColonialismBook Topic:South, GermanySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0119Product ID:SCFA039FE9

K. Molly O'Donnell is Professor of History and Director of Humanities honors at William Paterson University of New Jersey. She is the chief editor of The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness (2005) with Renate Bridenthal and Nancy Reagin.


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