ISBN:
978-0-8214-2089-8
,
0-8214-2089-5
,
978-0-8214-4487-0
Language:
English
Pages:
xxi, 328 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
New African Histories
Keywords:
Deutsch-Ostafrika Kolonie, deutsch
;
Kolonialismus
;
Kolonialgeschichte
;
Imperialismus
;
Afrikaner
;
Krieger
;
Kolonialtruppe
;
Maji-Maji
;
Frau
;
Lettow-Vorbeck, Paul von [Leben und Werk]
;
Wissmann, Hermann von [Leben und Werk]
;
Rezension
;
Rezension
Abstract:
The askari, African soldiers recruited in the 1890s to fill the ranks of the German East African colonial army, occupy a unique space at the intersection of East African history, German colonial history, and military history. Violent Intermediaries recovers and reconsiders the origin and role of these men, and of colonial soldiers more generally. Lauded by Germans for their loyalty during the East Africa campaign of World War I, but reviled by Tanzanians for the violence they committed during the making of the colonial state between 1890 and 1918, the askari have been poorly understood as historical agents. Violent Intermediaries situates them in their everyday household, community, military, and constabulary contexts, as men who helped make colonialism in German East Africa. By linking microhistories with wider nineteenth-century African historical processes, Michelle Moyd shows that the construction of the German East African colonial army resulted from convergences and collisions among differing conceptions of masculinity, radical reconfigurations of socioeconomic, political, and military structures, and European imperial incursions. As soldiers and colonial intermediaries, the askari built the colonial state while simultaneously carving out paths to respectability, becoming men of influence within their local contexts. Yet their positions as clients of German officer-patrons also exposed their dependency on a particular political order, which in the case of German East Africa proved ephemeral. Through its focus 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.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations --Preface --Acknowledgments --A Note on Spellings, Currency, and Measurements --Introduction: Reconstructing Askari Realities -- Chapter 1. Becoming Askari Narratives of Early Schutztruppe Recruitment in Context -- Chapter 2. Making Askari Ways of War Military Training and Socialization -- Chapter 3. The Askari Way of War -- Chapter 4. Station Life -- Chapter 5. Askari as Agents of Everyday Colonialism -- Conclusion: Making Askari Myths -- Chronology -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 289-322
