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The Herero Genocide : War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia / Matthias Häussler.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: War and Genocide ; 31Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781800730236
  • 9781800730243
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 968.8102 23
LOC classification:
  • DT1618 .H3813 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Settlers, Herero, and the Spiral of Violence -- Chapter 2. The Strategic Horizon: Leutwein—Metropole—Trotha -- Chapter 3. The Campaign -- Chapter 4. Small Warfare and Brutalization -- Chapter 5. From the Regime of the Camps to “Native Policy” -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Drawing on previously inaccessible and overlooked archival sources, The Herero Genocide undertakes a groundbreaking investigation into the war between colonizer and colonized in what was formerly German South-West Africa and is today the nation of Namibia. In addition to its eye-opening depictions of the starvation, disease, mass captivity, and other atrocities suffered by the Herero, it reaches surprising conclusions about the nature of imperial dominion, showing how the colonial state’s genocidal posture arose from its own inherent weakness and military failures. The result is an indispensable account of a genocide that has been neglected for too long.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Settlers, Herero, and the Spiral of Violence -- Chapter 2. The Strategic Horizon: Leutwein—Metropole—Trotha -- Chapter 3. The Campaign -- Chapter 4. Small Warfare and Brutalization -- Chapter 5. From the Regime of the Camps to “Native Policy” -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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Drawing on previously inaccessible and overlooked archival sources, The Herero Genocide undertakes a groundbreaking investigation into the war between colonizer and colonized in what was formerly German South-West Africa and is today the nation of Namibia. In addition to its eye-opening depictions of the starvation, disease, mass captivity, and other atrocities suffered by the Herero, it reaches surprising conclusions about the nature of imperial dominion, showing how the colonial state’s genocidal posture arose from its own inherent weakness and military failures. The result is an indispensable account of a genocide that has been neglected for too long.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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