The servants of empire : sponsored German women's colonization in Southwest Africa, 1896-1945

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsMap of Southwest AfricaIntroductionPart I: The Origins and Biopolitics of German Women's SettlementChapter 1. "Colonial Fanaticism"Chapter 2. "The Defilement of our Daughters"Chapter 3. "The Race War"Part II: Colonial Gossip, Moral Panics and Racial ConflictChapter 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 ColoniesChapter 7. German Colonial Women in the First World WarChapter 8. Weimar Women's Colonial ActivismChapter 9. German Women and the Nazi Colonial MovementConclusionAppendixBibliographyIndex
Zusammenfassung: 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

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9781800737990
• Dimensions: 24 cm
• Extent: xiii, 347 Seiten
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Illustrationen, Karte

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Geschichte 1896-1945 ; Kolonisation ; Deutsche Frau ; Siedlerin ; Migration ; Rassismus ; Geschichte 1896-1945 ; Frau ; Namibia ; Südwestafrika ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): New York, Oxford
• (who): Berghahn
• (when): 2023
• Creator: O'Donnell, Krista

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