German Rule, African Subjects: State Aspirations and the Reality of Power in Colonial Namibia Zimmerer J
German Rule, African Subjects: State Aspirations and the Reality of Power in Colonial Namibia Zimmerer J Though envisioned by its overseers as a "model state," German Southwest Africa never became…
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German Rule, African Subjects: State Aspirations and the Reality of Power in Colonial Namibia Zimmerer J
Though envisioned by its overseers as a "model state," German Southwest Africa never became the success story colonial officials hoped for. In this now-classic study-available here for the first time in English-the author provides an indispensable account of how German colonial ambitions foundered in what is present-day Namibia. Despite the immiseration they inflicted upon the indigenous population-from exploitative labor practices to genocidal violence-the colony lasted only thirty-five years and yielded little for the metropole before being lost to the British Empire.
As he shows, the highly rationalized planning of Wilhelmine authorities could not accommodate the practical, lived realities of both colonizer and