The Herero Genocide

Matthias Häussler holds a doctorate in history from the University of Lucerne and a doctorate in philosophy from the Goethe University Frankfurt, for which he was awarded the first International Maurice Blondel Award in the Modern Philosophy of Religion. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Diaspora Research and Genocide Studies (Ruhr University Bochum), working on a project titled "Narratives of genocide: Lothar von Trotha’s written and photographic legacy".

Preface

Acknowledgments



Introduction



Chapter 1. Settlers, Herero, and the Spiral of Violence

Chapter 2. The Strategic Horizon: Leutwein – Metropole – Trotha

Chapter 3. The Campaign

Chapter 4. Small Warfare and Brutalization

Chapter 5. From the Regime of the Camps to “Native Policy”



Conclusion



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