{"product_id":"violent-intermediaries-african-soldiers-conquest-and-everyday-colonialism-in-german-east-africa-9780821420898","title":"Violent Intermediaries  African Soldiers Conquest","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003ci\u003easkari\u003c\/i\u003e, African soldiers recruited in the 1890s to fill the ranks of the German East African colonial army, occupy a unique space at the intersection of East African history, German colonial history, and military history.Lauded\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eViolent Intermediaries\u003c\/i\u003e] offers a new and well researched perspective drawing on the insights of the social history of recent decades…[Moyd] has produced a fine social history of African soldiers as intermediaries in the everyday life of colonialism in German East Africa.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“Moyd’s insistence on viewing askari not only as soldiers but also as men with social lives and aspirations that transcended their professional activities in \u003ci\u003emaboma\u003c\/i\u003e, on expeditions, and on the battlefield is refreshing and insightful.…\u003ci\u003eViolent Intermediaries\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly readable monograph offering an empathetic view on the stigmatized African soldiers of the colonial army in German East Africa.” * H-Net *\u003cbr\u003e“Overcoming methodological challenges posed by translation, memory, and frankly a scarcity of documents disclosing askari voices, Moyd sought to understand these soldiers on their own terms. As a result she explores the everyday life of the askari, from within their households to their official and unofficial roles within colonial society, and she recovers a past widely misunderstood due to German praise and Tanzanian denunciation for their loyalty to the Schutztruppe (the official name of the German colonial army).… \u003ci\u003eViolent Intermediaries\u003c\/i\u003e, like other books in Ohio University Press’s New African Histories series edited by Jean Allman, Allen Isaacman, and Derek R. Peterson, expands the boundaries of African history in new and exciting directions.” * Canadian Journal of History *\u003cbr\u003e“[Moyd] furthers our understanding of everyday colonialism by fleshing out the lives of individuals who were simultaneously agents of colonialism and objects of colonial rule. …She uses [limited sources] thoroughly to provide rich and insightful details about this underexplored dimension of colonialism.” * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e“[Moyd] manages to reconcile the German inflated myth of the ‘loyal askari’ and the post-colonial Tanzanian emphasis [on] the askari as brutal agents of colonialism, by showing the many nuances in between—tracing the contradictory accounts to reveal simple human behavior.” * history.transnational *\u003cbr\u003e“I expect Violent Intermediaries to become the definitive English-language history of the East African Schutztruppe [the colonial forces of Germany]. Michelle Moyd has bravely and productively ventured into the realm of conventional military history to draw social and cultural conclusions from the ways that the Schutztruppe fought. This attention to how African soldiers carried out their primary mission is largely missing from most of the recent scholarship on colonial militaries.”\u003cbr\u003e“Michelle Moyd brings to life the world of the East African askari in this imaginative and original study of their role in shaping German colonialism in Africa in the early twentieth century. Readable, well argued, and carefully researched, \u003ci\u003eViolent Intermediaries\u003c\/i\u003e is an important study that will enrich the work of scholars in many areas.”\u003cbr\u003e“Michelle Moyd offers a uniquely empathetic reading of colonial sources and a new narrative voice as she uncovers the histories of … actors that have been mythologized, misused, and misunderstood for more than a century.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* List of Illustrations  * Preface  * Acknowledgments  * A Note on Spellings, Currency, and Measurements  * Introduction: Reconstructing Askari Realities  * Chapter 1: Becoming Askari Narratives of Early Schutztruppe  Recruitment in Context  * Chapter 2: Making Askari Ways of War Military Training and Socialization  * Chapter 3: The Askari Way of War  * Chapter 4: Station Life  * Chapter 5: Askari as Agents of Everyday Colonialism  * Conclusion: Making Askari Myths  * Chronology  * Notes  * Glossary  * Bibliography  * Index","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405997384023,"sku":"9780821420898","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780821420898.jpg?v=1730494182","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/violent-intermediaries-african-soldiers-conquest-and-everyday-colonialism-in-german-east-africa-9780821420898","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}