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

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.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2022
Authors:	K. Molly O'Donnell
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	422
ISBN-13:	978-1-80073-799-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > History > African history > General
LSN:	1-80073-799-8
Barcode:	9781800737990

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