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.
“[An Imperial Homeland’s] walkthrough of the existing literature on
German Southwest Africa and its original contributions in Chapter
Six of the volume will make it a useful addition to courses on
German history and German imperialism.”—Sean Andrew Wempe German
Studies Review
“An Imperial Homeland admirably lays out how the colonization of
Southwest Africa shaped Germany in powerful and enduring
ways.”—Matthew P. Fitzpatrick Monatshefte
“An Imperial Homeland is a very welcome and valuable contribution
to the booming field of (German) imperial history. Blackler does a
convincing job explaining how Germany’s imperial metropole and its
only settler colony were linked and how both contributed to German
identity in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. He offers
nuanced views and bases his arguments on a wide range of archival
and published sources. What is more, he persuasively shows that
African actors shaped this process in significant ways.”—Jonas
Kreienbaum H-Net
“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
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