An Imperial Homeland by Adam A Blackler
Examines the relationship between imperial Germany and its empire in southwest Africa (present-day Namibia), exploring how Africans confronted foreign rule and altered German national identity between 1842 and 1915.“[An Imperial Homeland’s] walkthrough of the existing literature on German Southwest Africa and its original contributions in Chapter Six of the volume will make it a useful addition to courses on German history and German imperialism”
—Sean Andrew Wempe German Studies Review
“An Imperial Homeland admirably lays out how the colonization of Southwest Africa shaped Germany in powerful and enduring ways.”
—Matthew P. Fitzpatrick Monatshefte
“An Imperial Homeland is a very welcome and valuable contribution to the booming field of (German) imperial history. Blackler does a convincing job explaining how Germany’s imperial metropole and its only settler colony were linked and how both contributed to German identity in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. He offers nuanced views and bases his arguments on a wide range of archival and published sources. What is more, he persuasively shows that African actors shaped this process in significant ways.”
—Jonas Kreienbaum H-Net
“An Imperial Homeland traces Germany’s uses of Southwest Africa within a white imperial imaginary that harbored genocidal potential. Blackler explains how the colonial experience in German Southwest Africa affected and transformed German society across a longer time span than is typically considered within the historiography. His work shows that colonial officials, missionaries, soldiers, and settlers adapted racist and civilizationist thought and practice over decades, creating the conditions for devastating and multifaceted violence against thousands of Namibians.”
—Michelle R. Moyd, author of Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa
Adam A. Blackler is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wyoming. He is coeditor of After the Imperialist Imagination: Two Decades of Research on Global Germany and Its Legacies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780271092980 |
| ISBN 10 | 027109298X |
| Title | An Imperial Homeland |
| Author | Adam A Blackler |
| Series | Max Kade Research Institute |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Year published | 2022-09-27 |
| Number of pages | 282 |
| Prizes | Nominated for Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize 2023, Nominated for Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies 2024 |
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