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Slaps in the face, kicks, beatings, and other forms of run-of-the-mill violence were a quotidian part of life in German Southwest Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. Unearthing this culture of normalized violence in a settler colony, Violence as Usual uncovers the workings of a powerful state that was built in an improvised fashion by low-level state representatives. Marie A. Muschalek's fascinating portrayal of the daily deeds of African and German men enrolled in the colonial pol
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- Author
- German Southwest Africa. Landespolizei;Muschalek, Marie A
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501742866
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Social Science, Sociology, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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