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Violent intermediaries : African soldiers, conquest, and everyday colonialism in German East Africa / Michelle R. Moyd.
LIBRA DT447 .M69 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moyd, Michelle R., 1968- author.
- Series:
- New African histories series
- New African histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colonies.
- Mercenary troops.
- German East Africa--History, Military.
- German East Africa.
- Mercenary troops--German East Africa.
- German East Africa--History.
- German East Africa--Colonization.
- Germany--Colonies--Africa, East.
- Germany.
- Africa, East.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- The askari, African soldiers recruited in the 1890s to fill the ranks of the German East African colonial army, occupy a unique but poorly understood position in the history of the region Lauded by Germans for their loyalty during the East Africa campaign of World War I, they were reviled by Tanzanians for the violence they committed during the making of the colonial state between 1890 and 1918 Violent Intermediaries Situates them in their everyday household, community military, and constabulary roles, as men who helped make colonialism in German East Africa. By linking microhistories with wider nineteenth century African historical processes, Michelle R. Moyd shows how the askari, as soldiers and colonial Intermediaries, built the colonial state while simultaneously carying out paths to respectability, becoming men of influence within their local contexts. Through its locus on the making of empire from the ground up, Violent Intermediaries offers, a fresh perspective on African colonial troops as state-making agents and critiques the mythologies surrounding the askari by focusing on the nature of colonial violence. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Becoming Askari : narratives of early Schutztruppe recruitment in context
- Making Askari ways of war : military training and socialization
- The Askari way of war
- Station life
- Askari as agents of everyday colonialism
- Conclusion: making Askari myths.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references(pages 289-322) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780821420898
- 0821420895
- 9780821444870
- 0821444875
- OCLC:
- 861676382
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