Description:
Exposes how Africans confronted foreign rule and altered German national identity.
Brief description: Adam A. Blackler is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wyoming. He is coeditor of After the Imperialist Imagination: Two Decades of Research on Global Germany and Its Legacies.
Review Quotes:
"An Imperial Homeland traces Germany's uses of Southwest Africa within a white imperial imaginary that harbored genocidal potential. Blackler explains how the colonial experience in German Southwest Africa affected and transformed German society across a longer time span than is typically considered within the historiography. His work shows that colonial officials, missionaries, soldiers, and settlers adapted racist and civilizationist thought and practice over decades, creating the conditions for devastating and multifaceted violence against thousands of Namibians."
--Michelle R. Moyd, author of Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa