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The Herero Genocide: War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia
The Herero Genocide: War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia
The Herero Genocide: War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia
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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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Release dateApr 1, 2021
ISBN9781805395638
The Herero Genocide: War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia
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Matthias Häussler

Matthias Häussler holds a doctorate in history from the University of Lucerne and a doctorate in philosophy from the Goethe University Frankfurt, for which he was awarded the first International Maurice Blondel Award in the Modern Philosophy of Religion. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Diaspora Research and Genocide Studies (Ruhr University Bochum), working on a project titled "Narratives of genocide: Lothar von Trotha’s written and photographic legacy".

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