An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa

Contents\nList of Illustrations\nAcknowledgments\nList of Abbreviations\nIntroduction: National Fantasies—German Identity and the African Heimat\nPart 1: National Aspirations, 1842–1884\n1 “New Worlds of Vitality”: Colonial Aspirations and the German Nation, 1848–1884\n2 “Between Heimat and Heathens”: Religious Chauvinism in Southwest Africa\nPart 2: Colonial Encounters, 1884–1904\n3 “A Blessing to Itself and the Motherland”: Extolling Empire in the Age of Imperial Conquest\n4 “I Have Done All I Can”: African Resistance and the Evolution of German Colonial Violence\nPart 3: An Imperial Homeland, 1905–1914\n5 “My Nearly White Wife”: Colonial Citizenship and the Racial Boundaries of Germanness\n6 “A Little Bit of the Devil in His Body”: Imperial Masculinity and the Ideal German (Settler)\nConclusion: After Empire—Heimat Südwest and German Identity\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex