{"product_id":"the-servants-of-empire-sponsored-german-women-s-colonization-in-southwest-africa-1896-1945-9781800737990","title":"The Servants of Empire: Sponsored German Women’s","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tCapturing the history of thousands of German women recruited to colonize Southwest Africa between the 1890s and 1940s, \u003cem\u003eThe Servants of Empire\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“O’Donnell’s thoroughly researched book offers a wealth of insights into the unstable, gendered, classed, and racialized dynamics governing settler society in German Southwest Africa. With welcome attention to paranoia and panic, gossip and rumour,\u003c\/em\u003e The Servants of Empire \u003cem\u003ereveals institutionalized regimes of violence and coercion aimed at Africans and intrusive regimes of internal boundary-drawing focused on the vulnerability of white German women’s bodies.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Jeff Bowersox\u003c\/strong\u003e, University College London\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tMap of Southwest Africa\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: The Origins and Biopolitics of German Women’s Settlement\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e “Colonial Fanaticism”\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e “The Defilement of our Daughters”\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e “The Race War”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Colonial Gossip, Moral Panics and Racial Conflict\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e “The Malice of Native Women”\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e “A Moral Danger for the Children of White Mothers”\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e “African Stories”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: German Women’s Colonialism after the Loss of the German Colonies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e German Colonial Women in the First World War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Weimar Women’s Colonial Activism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e German Women and the Nazi Colonial Movement\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tAppendix\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042751119703,"sku":"9781800737990","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800737990.jpg?v=1750955468","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-servants-of-empire-sponsored-german-women-s-colonization-in-southwest-africa-1896-1945-9781800737990","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}