LEADER 04833cam 2200553 i 4500001 ssj0001786957 003 WaSeSS 005 20200412081236.0 006 m d 007 cr n 008 160930s2017 mau sb 001 0 eng d 010 2016040430 020 9780674970632 |q(alk. paper) 035 (WaSeSS)ssj0001786957 040 MH/DLC |beng |cMH |dDLC |dWaSeSS 041 1 eng |hger 042 pcc 049 EREENEHH 050 00 DD104 |b.K8713 2017 082 00 909/.09712430821 |223 100 1 Kuss, Susanne. |=^A1325769 240 10 Deutsches Militär auf kolonialen Kriegsschauplätzen. |lEnglish |=^A1325769 245 10 German colonial wars and the context of military violence |h[electronic resource] / |cSusanne Kuss ; translated by Andrew Smith. 260 Cambridge, Massachusetts : |bHarvard University Press, |c2017. 300 vi, 386 pages ; |c25 cm 500 "An earlier version of this work was first published as Deutsches Militär auf kolonialen Kriegsschauplätzen: Eskalation von Gewalt zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts (c) Christoph Links Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2010"--Title page verso. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-367) and index. 505 0 Part I. Three wars: The Boxer War -- The Herero and Nama war -- The Maji Maji war -- Part II. The colonial theater of war: The motivation of white and native colonial soldiers -- Training and weaponry -- Ideology and passage to war -- Environment and enemy -- Diseases and injuries -- Reaction from the foreign powers -- Parliament and the military press -- Part III. Evaluation and memory: The military -- Veterans' associations -- Legacy. 506 Available only to authorized users. 520 Germany fought three major colonial wars from 1900 to 1908: the Boxer War in China, the Herero and Nama War in Southwest Africa, and the Maji Maji War in East Africa. Recently, historians have emphasized the role of German military culture in shaping the horrific violence of these conflicts, tracing a line from German atrocities in the colonial sphere to those committed by the Nazis during World War II. Susanne Kuss dismantles such claims in a close examination of Germany's early twentieth-century colonial experience. Despite acts of unquestionable brutality committed by the Kaiser's soldiers, she finds no direct path from Windhoek, site of the infamous massacre of the Herero people, to Auschwitz. The author rejects the notion that a distinctive military culture or ethos determined how German forces acted overseas. Unlike rival powers France and Great Britain, Germany did not possess a professional colonial army. The forces it deployed in Africa and China were a motley mix of volunteers, sailors, mercenaries, and native recruits--all accorded different training and motivated by different factors. Germany's colonial troops embodied no esprit de corps that the Nazis could subsequently adopt. Belying its reputation for Teutonic efficiency, the German military's conduct of operations in Africa and China was improvisational and often haphazard. Local conditions--geography, climate, the size and capabilities of opposing native populations--determined the nature and extent of the violence German soldiers employed. A deliberate policy of genocide did not guide their actions.-- |cProvided by publisher 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web 650 0 Militarism |zGermany |xHistory |y20th century. |=^A1133632 650 0 Maji Maji Uprising, 1905-1907. |=^A1326364 650 0 Imperialism. |=^A15280 651 0 Germany |xHistory, Military |y20th century. |=^A94389 651 0 Namibia |xHistory |yHerero Revolt, 1904-1907. |=^A197450 651 0 Namibia |xHistory |yNama Revolt, 1904-1908. |=^A1326325 651 0 China |xHistory |yBoxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. |=^A41630 655 0 Electronic books. |=^A491897 765 08 |iTranslation of:Kuss, Susanne. |tDeutsches Militär auf kolonialen Kriegsschauplätzen. |b2., durchgesehene Auflage. |dBerlin : Links, 2010 |z9783861536031 |w(DLC) 2012468688 |w(OCoLC)681314721 856 40 |zFull text available from JSTOR eBooks |uhttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F10.2307%2Fj.ctt1n2ttxm 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJOYNER188 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hHSL77 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJMUSIC60 596 1 3 4 998 4739539