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  title info:
    title: Forged in genocide
    sub title: migrant workers shaping colonial capitalism in Namibia, 1890-1925
  name:
    name part: Lyon, William Blakemore
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 329 pages : Illustrations (some color), color maps, color charts; 23 cm
  abstract: 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 20th century, became highly integrated into the labor flows and economies of West and Southern Africa, and even for a time was one of the most sought-after regions for African migrants because of relatively high wages and numerous opportunities resulting from the war's demographic devastation paired with an economic frenzy following the discovery of diamonds. In highlighting the life stories of migrants in Namibia from regions as diverse as the Kru coast of Liberia, the Eastern Cape of South Africa, and the Ovambo polities of Northern Namibia, this work integrates micro-history into larger African continental trends. Building off of written sources from migrants themselves and utilising the Namibian Worker Database constructed for this project, this book explores the lives of workers in early colonial Namibia in a way that has hereto not been attempted. --
  table of contents: 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.
  note: William Blakemore Lyon.
  note: Includes bibliographic references (pages 309-322) and index.
  subject:
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    geographic code: f------
    geographic code: e-gx---
  subject:
    topic: Genocide
    geographic: Namibia
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Migrant labor
    geographic: Namibia
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Migrant labor
    geographic: Africa
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Labor
    geographic: Namibia
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Labor
    geographic: Africa
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism
  subject:
    topic: Genocide
  subject:
    geographic: Germany
    topic: Colonies
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
    topic: Emigration and immigration
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Namibia
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Namibia
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Impérialisme
  subject:
    geographic: Namibie
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Travailleurs migrants
    geographic: Namibie
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Travailleurs migrants
    geographic: Afrique
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Travail
    geographic: Namibie
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Travail
    geographic: Afrique
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    geographic: Namibie
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  classification: DT1603 .L96 2024
  classification: 968.8102 L9952f
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Africa in global history ; v. 9
  identifier: 9783111374659
  identifier: 3111374653
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240406
    record change date: 20250318220504.5
    record identifier: in00005611645
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng