The Servants of Empire

K. Molly O’Donnell is Professor of History and Director of Humanities honors at William Paterson University of New Jersey. She is the chief editor of The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness (2005) with Renate Bridenthal and Nancy Reagin.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Map of Southwest Africa



Introduction



Part I: The Origins and Biopolitics of German Women’s Settlement



Chapter 1. “Colonial Fanaticism”

Chapter 2. “The Defilement of our Daughters”

Chapter 3. “The Race War”



Part II: Colonial Gossip, Moral Panics and Racial Conflict



Chapter 4. “The Malice of Native Women”

Chapter 5. “A Moral Danger for the Children of White Mothers”

Chapter 6. “African Stories”



Part III: German Women’s Colonialism after the Loss of the German Colonies



Chapter 7. German Colonial Women in the First World War

Chapter 8. Weimar Women’s Colonial Activism

Chapter 9. German Women and the Nazi Colonial Movement



Conclusion



Appendix

Bibliography

Index