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Author: Michelle R. Moyd Publisher: Ohio University Press ISBN: 0821444875 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 351
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The askari, African soldiers recruited in the 1890s to fill the ranks of the German East African colonial army, occupy a unique space at the intersection of East African history, German colonial history, and military history. Lauded by Germans for their loyalty during the East Africa campaign of World War I, but reviled by Tanzanians for the violence they committed during the making of the colonial state between 1890 and 1918, the askari have been poorly understood as historical agents. Violent Intermediaries situates them in their everyday household, community, military, and constabulary roles, as men who helped make colonialism in German East Africa. By linking microhistories with wider nineteenth-century African historical processes, Michelle Moyd shows how as soldiers and colonial intermediaries, the askari built the colonial state while simultaneously carving out paths to respectability, becoming men of influence within their local contexts. Through its focus on the making of empire from the ground up, Violent Intermediaries offers a fresh perspective on African colonial troops as state-making agents and critiques the mythologies surrounding the askari by focusing on the nature of colonial violence.
Author: Michelle R. Moyd Publisher: Ohio University Press ISBN: 0821444875 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 351
Book Description
The askari, African soldiers recruited in the 1890s to fill the ranks of the German East African colonial army, occupy a unique space at the intersection of East African history, German colonial history, and military history. Lauded by Germans for their loyalty during the East Africa campaign of World War I, but reviled by Tanzanians for the violence they committed during the making of the colonial state between 1890 and 1918, the askari have been poorly understood as historical agents. Violent Intermediaries situates them in their everyday household, community, military, and constabulary roles, as men who helped make colonialism in German East Africa. By linking microhistories with wider nineteenth-century African historical processes, Michelle Moyd shows how as soldiers and colonial intermediaries, the askari built the colonial state while simultaneously carving out paths to respectability, becoming men of influence within their local contexts. Through its focus on the making of empire from the ground up, Violent Intermediaries offers a fresh perspective on African colonial troops as state-making agents and critiques the mythologies surrounding the askari by focusing on the nature of colonial violence.
Author: Xavier Bougarel Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1474249442 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 254
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During the two World Wars that marked the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of non-European combatants fought in the ranks of various European armies. The majority of these soldiers were Muslims from North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent. How are these combatants considered in existing historiography? Over the past few decades, research on war has experienced a wide-reaching renewal, with increased emphasis on the social and cultural dimensions of war, and a desire to reconstruct the experience and viewpoint of the combatants themselves. This volume reintroduces the question of religious belonging and practice into the study of Muslim combatants in European armies in the 20th century, focusing on the combatants' viewpoint alongside that of the administrations and military hierarchy.
Author: Douglas E. Streusand Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429968132 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 410
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Islamic Gunpowder Empires provides readers with a history of Islamic civilization in the early modern world through a comparative examination of Islam's three greatest empires: the Ottomans (centered in what is now Turkey), the Safavids (in modern Iran), and the Mughals (ruling the Indian subcontinent). Author Douglas Streusand explains the origins of the three empires; compares the ideological, institutional, military, and economic contributors to their success; and analyzes the causes of their rise, expansion, and ultimate transformation and decline. Streusand depicts the three empires as a part of an integrated international system extending from the Atlantic to the Straits of Malacca, emphasizing both the connections and the conflicts within that system. He presents the empires as complex polities in which Islam is one political and cultural component among many. The treatment of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires incorporates contemporary scholarship, dispels common misconceptions, and provides an excellent platform for further study.
Author: Willeke Sandler Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 019069792X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 485
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With the end of the First World War, Germany became a "post-colonial" power. The Treaty of Versailles in 1919 transformed Germany's overseas colonies in Africa and the Pacific into League of Nations Mandates, administered by other powers. Yet a number of Germans rejected this "post-colonial" status, arguing instead that Germany was simply an interrupted colonial power and would soon reclaim these territories. With the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, irredentism seemed once again on the agenda, and these colonialist advocates actively and loudly promoted their colonial cause in the Third Reich. Examining the domestic activities of these colonialist lobbying organizations, Empire in the Heimat demonstrates the continued place of overseas colonialism in shaping German national identity after the end of formal empire. In the Third Reich, the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft and the Reichskolonialbund framed Germans as having a particular aptitude for colonialism and the overseas territories as a German Heimat. As such, they sought to give overseas colonialism renewed meaning for both the present and the future of Nazi Germany. They brought this message to the German public through countless publications, exhibitions, rallies, lectures, photographs, and posters. Their public activities were met with a mix of occasional support, ambivalence, or even outright opposition from some Nazi officials, who privileged the Nazi regime's European territorial goals over colonialists' overseas goals. Colonialists' ability to navigate this obstruction and intervention reveals both the limitations and the spaces available in the public sphere under Nazism for such "special interest" discourses.
Author: Askari Publisher: ISBN: 9781951081249 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 274
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As a major hustler in Uptown Philly, ZION had the streets on lock. But when a judge's gavel landed him in prison, he was quickly introduced to the SHADOWS OF THE GAME. After serving a ten year sentence, Zion returns to society determined to have a positive impact on the same streets that he once controlled. But it doesn't take long before his previous sins come back to haunt him. As a hustler's wife, EBONY had it all, the money, the cars, the boss-chick status and the house on the hill. But when her children's father was murdered in cold blood, she was quickly introduced to the SHADOWS OF THE GAME. Ebony's worst fear is that her teenaged sons, JABARI and KENYATTA, will follow in their father's footsteps, and the older they get the more she realizes how hard it is for a woman to raise a man. When Ebony meets Zion, it's like looking into the eyes of a soulmate. He's everything she ever wanted in a man. But when tragedy strikes and the world comes crashing down, there's no time for love. The only thing on Ebony's mind is revenge.
Author: Hans Harder Publisher: Helmut Buske Verlag ISBN: 3967693171 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 172
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Inhalt: • Arian Hopf: Muhammad Hasan Askari: Mulla-Turned Modernist or Saviour of Tradition? • Agi Wittich: Harnessing Authenticity in Iyengar Yoga: Legitimizing and Romanticizing Women-Oriented Yoga through Sanskrit Texts • Sayan Chattopadhyay: Solitude of an Obscure Bengal Village: Tagore's Pastoral Sojourn and the Crisis of Readership • Ofer Peres: Purūravas in Tamil Temple Mythology: A Case Study from the Kaveri Delta • Gautam Liu: Von wegen altes Eisen: Die Progressivistische Kritik an der Naī kahānī • Hans Harder: Satirical Stotras in Colonial Bengali and Hindi Literatures
Author: James Giblin Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004185399 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 337
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The Maji Maji war of 1905-07 in Tanzania was the largest African rebellion against European colonialism. This volume offers the fullest account of the war in the English language. Using oral accounts and little-used documentary evidence, contributors offer detailed histories of districts and localities as well as groups, such as African soldiers in the German army, elephant hunters and women, whose roles in war have been neglected. The contributors examine varieties of communication during wartime, including the circulation of rumor between Africans and Germans. They also offer new insight into the most famous aspect of the war – the use of medicine which was believed to provide invulnerability. The contributors are historians and an archaeologist recognized as authorities on Tanzanian history.
Author: Ariele Sieling Publisher: Ariele Sieling ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 263
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Head down, mouth shut—this is Askari’s new mantra. A pall still hangs over the Baratok community from the rarohan attack only a few months before, and all Askari wants is to stay out of trouble and help her grieving community heal. Until a stranger rides into camp. He offers her a chance to obtain something rare and valuable—monster blood with healing properties that could help prevent more of her people from dying. But when the mission goes wrong, she becomes the target of a relentless monster who won’t stop pursuing her until she and everyone around her are dead. Her only thought is to lead it away from the Baratok community, even if that means sacrificing herself. Injured, scared, and with only Harcos and Shujaa to help her fight, Askari flees from the Baratok with the monster on her tail. As she runs, fights, overcomes injuries, and encounters unimaginable terrors, she begins to wonder if she’ll ever make it back home—or if she even wants to.
Author: Michelle Renée Moyd Publisher: ISBN: Category : Africa, East Languages : en Pages : 26
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"[The author explores] the social and cultural history of the Schutztruppe askari in East Africa ... emphasiz[ing] the process of "becoming askari" by tracing their self-understandings, from their pre-colonial origins to the Schutztruppe experiences, assembling impressions of who they thought they were, and what they thought they were doing as they went about the everyday business of being professional soldiers and 'colonial intermediaries.' They fought the colonial wars that made it possible for Germany to claim a portion of East Africa as German territory. In addition though, in their everyday activities as police, guards, messengers, ceremonial representatives, and tax collectors, they performed intermediary roles that contributed to their becoming askari, as well as to functioning of the colonial state of German East Africa. They were both wielders and subjects of colonial power and violence, and their self-understandings were shaped by a dynamic process that blended attributes and skills gained from their specific African social histories and military heritages with German military values and racial understandings"--P. 4-5.
Author: Michelle R. Moyd
Author: Michelle R. Moyd
Author: Xavier Bougarel
Author: Douglas E. Streusand
Author: Willeke Sandler
Author: Askari
Author: Hans Harder
Author: James Giblin
Author: Ariele Sieling
Author: Melvin E Page
Author: Michelle Renée Moyd