The Servants of Empire: Sponsored German Women's Colonization in Southwest Africa, 1896-1945

by K Molly O'Donnell

Capturing the history of thousands of German women recruited to colonize Southwest Africa between the 1890s and 1940s, The Servants of Empire 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800737998
• ISBN13: 9781800737990
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"