The Servants of Empire (eBook)

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

K. Molly O’Donnell (Autor)

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2022
422 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-784-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.12.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Biopolitics • Class • Colonial History, History: 20th Century to Present • Colonialism • colonial society • Ethnicity • Gender • German colonies • German colonisation • German female settlement program • German Southwest Africa • German women’s settlement • Germany • Herero and Nama Genocide • imperialism • Inequality • interracial marriage • interracial union • Mixed Marriages • Namibia • Nation • native women • Nazi colonial movement • Race • Racist violence • Reproduction • settler communities • vigilantism • white settlement
• ISBN-10: 1-80073-784-X / 180073784X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80073-784-6 / 9781800737846