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German Colonial Wars and the Context of Military Violence / Susanne Kuss.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (400 p.) : 3 maps, 1 graph, 5 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674970632
  • 9780674977358
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 325.343
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Boxer War -- 2. The Herero and Nama War -- 3. The Maji Maji War -- 4. The Motivation of White and Native Colonial Soldiers -- 5. Training and Weaponry -- 6. Ideology and Passage to War -- 7. Environment and Enemy -- 8. Diseases and Injuries -- 9. Reaction from the Foreign Powers -- 10. Parliament and the Military Press -- 11. The Military -- 12. Veterans' Associations -- 13. Legacy -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Some historians have traced a line from Germany's atrocities in its colonial wars to those committed by the Nazis during WWII. Susanne Kuss dismantles these claims, rejecting the notion that a distinctive military ethos or policy of genocide guided Germany's conduct of operations in Africa and China, despite acts of unquestionable brutality.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674977358

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Boxer War -- 2. The Herero and Nama War -- 3. The Maji Maji War -- 4. The Motivation of White and Native Colonial Soldiers -- 5. Training and Weaponry -- 6. Ideology and Passage to War -- 7. Environment and Enemy -- 8. Diseases and Injuries -- 9. Reaction from the Foreign Powers -- 10. Parliament and the Military Press -- 11. The Military -- 12. Veterans' Associations -- 13. Legacy -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Some historians have traced a line from Germany's atrocities in its colonial wars to those committed by the Nazis during WWII. Susanne Kuss dismantles these claims, rejecting the notion that a distinctive military ethos or policy of genocide guided Germany's conduct of operations in Africa and China, despite acts of unquestionable brutality.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)