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.
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The Servants of Empire
Sponsored German Women’s Colonization in Southwest Africa, 1896-1945
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The Servants of Empire
Sponsored German Women’s Colonization in Southwest Africa, 1896-1945
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- 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
- Part II. Colonial Gossip, Moral Panics, and Racial Conflict
- Part III. German Women’s Colonialism after the Loss of the German Colonies
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
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