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The Herero Genocide: War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia

By Matthias Häußler

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2021
ISBN
9781800730243
DOI
10.1515/9781800730243
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1205087 bytes)
Series
War and Genocide; 31
Pages
306\306
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 03:55:22

Description

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.

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