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Forged in Genocide : Migrant Workers Shaping Colonial Capitalism in Namibia, 1890-1925 /

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Forged in Genocide traces the early history of colonial capitalism in Namibia with a central focus on migrants who came to be key to the economy during and as a result of the German genocide of the Herero and Nama (1904-1908). It posits that Namibia, far from being a colonial backwater of the early...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lyon, William Blakemore (Author)
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Mnchen ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2024]
Series:Africa in Global History , 9
Subjects:
Deutscher Kolonialismus.
Genozid.
Namibia.
Zwangsarbeit.
German Colonialism.
forced labor.
genocide.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Glossary
  • Introduction
  • 1 Colonial Contact Zones: Power, Politics and Labor at Early Work Sites in German South West Africa, 1892-1903
  • 2 The Human Infrastructure of the Namibian War: Origins of the 'Namibian Labor Corridors' in War and Genocide, 1904-1908
  • 3 Workers from the North: The Ovambo Labor Corridor, 1905-1914
  • 4 Privileged but Precarious West and South African Migrants: Labor Elite and Entrepreneurs, 1908-1914
  • 5 The End of the 'Namibian Labor Corridors': War, Pandemic, Unions, and Garveyism, 1914-1925
  • Conclusion
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Primary Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index