The Servants of Empire : : Sponsored German Women’s Colonization in Southwest Africa, 1896-1945 / / K. Molly O’Donnell.
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...
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O’Donnell, K. Molly, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Servants of Empire : Sponsored German Women’s Colonization in Southwest Africa, 1896-1945 / K. Molly O’Donnell. New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (422 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Map of South West Africa -- Introduction. Sponsored German Women’s Settlement in German South West Africa -- Part I. The Origins and Biopolitics of German Women’s Settlement -- Chapter 1. Colonial Fanaticism -- Chapter 2. “The Defi lement 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 World War I -- Chapter 8. Weimar Women’s Colonial Activism -- Chapter 9. German Women and the Nazi Colonial Movement -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) Germans Namibia History. Immigrants Namibia History. Women colonists Namibia History. HISTORY / Europe / Germany. bisacsh Colonial History, History: 20th Century to Present. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110997668 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800737846 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800737846 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781800737846/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Map of South West Africa -- Introduction. Sponsored German Women’s Settlement in German South West Africa -- Part I. The Origins and Biopolitics of German Women’s Settlement -- Chapter 1. Colonial Fanaticism -- Chapter 2. “The Defi lement 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 World War I -- Chapter 8. Weimar Women’s Colonial Activism -- Chapter 9. German Women and the Nazi Colonial Movement -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Map of South West Africa -- Introduction. Sponsored German Women’s Settlement in German South West Africa -- Part I. The Origins and Biopolitics of German Women’s Settlement -- Chapter 1. Colonial Fanaticism -- Chapter 2. “The Defi lement 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 World War I -- Chapter 8. Weimar Women’s Colonial Activism -- Chapter 9. German Women and the Nazi Colonial Movement -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index |
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