The Servants of Empire Sponsored German Women’s Colonization in Southwest Africa, 1896-1945

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Author:
K. Molly O’Donnell
ISBN:
9781800737990
Related ISBNs:
9781800737846
Publisher:
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Pages:
422
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2022-12-09
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2022
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Politics and Government