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Subject(s)

• National characteristics, German [Browse]
• Imperialism [Browse]
• Namibia—History—1884-1915 [Browse]
• Germany—Colonies—Africa [Browse]
• Germany—Relations—Namibia—History—19th century [Browse]
• Namibia—Relations—Germany—History—19th century [Browse]
• Germany—Relations—Namibia—History—20th century [Browse]
• Namibia—Relations—Germany—History—20th century [Browse]
• Germany—Colonies—Race relations [Browse]

Series

• Max Kade German-American Research Institute series [More in this series]
• The Max Kade Research Institute series : Germans beyond Europe

Summary note

"Examines the relationship between imperial Germany and its empire in southwest Africa (present-day Namibia), exploring how Africans confronted foreign rule and altered German national identity between 1842 and 1915"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-255) and index.

Contents

• Introduction : national fantasies
• German identity and the African Heimat
• "New worlds of vitality" : colonial aspirations and the German nation, 1848-1884
• "Between Heimat and heathens" : religious chauvinism in southwest Africa
• "A blessing to itself and the motherland" : extolling empire in the age of imperial conquest
• "I have done all I can" : African resistance and the evolution of German colonial violence
• "My nearly white wife" : colonial citizenship and the racial boundaries of Germanness
• "A little bit of the devil in his body" : imperial masculinity and the ideal German (settler)
• Conclusion : after empire
• Heimat Südwest and German identity.

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ISBN

• 9780271092980
• 027109298X

LCCN

2022019036

OCLC

1301903844

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