| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 255 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : everyday violence and the colonial state -- Honor, status, masculinity : violent identity formations -- Soldier-bureaucrats : the primacy of proper bearing -- Of whips, shackles, and guns : tools and technologies of policing -- Police work : daily routines and the art of making do -- Policing work : violent regulation of the labor market -- Conclusion : histories of colonial violence. |
| Summary |
This book is a historical anthropology of the daily deeds of African and German men enrolled in the colonial police force called the Landespolizei. Exploring first their sociocultural backgrounds and mindsets, as well as their practical habits, the book then describes how these men came to be the key regulators of normalized, functional violence.--description provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
German Southwest Africa. Landespolizei -- History.
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Police -- Namibia -- History -- 20th century.
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Police. |
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Namibia. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Violence -- Namibia -- History -- 20th century.
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Germans -- Namibia -- History -- 20th century.
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Violence. |
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Namibia -- History -- 1884-1915.
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| Chronological Term |
1884-1915 |
| Subject |
Namibia -- Colonization.
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Colonization. |
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Germans. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany. |
| Chronological Term |
1884-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Police. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Muschalek, Marie A., 1978- Violence as usual. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501742859 (DLC) 2019006493 (OCoLC)1089870178 |
| ISBN |
9781501742873 (electronic book) |
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1501742876 (electronic book) |
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9781501742866 (electronic book) |
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1501742868 (electronic book) |
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9781501742859 (hardcover) |
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