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The Servants of Empire

Sponsored German Women’s Colonization in Southwest Africa, 1896-1945

K. Molly O’Donnell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

422 Seiten

2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-799-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Map of Southwest Africa

Introduction

Part I: The Origins and Biopolitics of German Women’s Settlement

Chapter 1. “Colonial Fanaticism”

Chapter 2. “The Defilement of our Daughters”

Chapter 3. “The Race War”

Part II: Colonial Gossip, Moral Panics and Racial Conflict

Chapter 4. “The Malice of Native Women”

Chapter 5. “A Moral Danger for the Children of White Mothers”

Chapter 6. “African Stories”

Part III: German Women’s Colonialism after the Loss of the German Colonies

Chapter 7. German Colonial Women in the First World War

Chapter 8. Weimar Women’s Colonial Activism

Chapter 9. German Women and the Nazi Colonial Movement

Conclusion

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.11.2022
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-80073-799-8 / 1800737998
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-799-0 / 9781800737990
Zustand	Neuware