The Herero Genocide

War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia

von Matthias Häussler

308 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: War and Genocide
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Afrikanische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9781805391517
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.02.2024
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books