{"product_id":"violent-intermediaries-african-soldiers-conquest-and-everyday-colonialism-in-german-east-africa-9780821420898","title":"Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003easkari\u003c\/i\u003e, African soldiers recruited in the 1890s to fill the ranks of the German East African colonial army, occupy a unique space at the intersection of East African history, German colonial history, and military history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLauded by Germans for their loyalty during the East Africa campaign of World War I, but reviled by Tanzanians for the violence they committed during the making of the colonial state between 1890 and 1918, the askari have been poorly understood as historical agents. \u003ci\u003eViolent Intermediaries\u003c\/i\u003e situates them in their everyday household, community, military, and constabulary roles, as men who helped make colonialism in German East Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy linking microhistories with wider nineteenth-century African historical processes, Michelle Moyd shows how as soldiers and colonial intermediaries, the askari built the colonial state while simultaneously carving out paths to respectability, becoming men of influence within their local contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough its focus on the making of empire from the ground up, \u003ci\u003eViolent Intermediaries\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh perspective on African colonial troops as state-making agents and critiques the mythologies surrounding the askari by focusing on the nature of colonial violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichelle R. Moyd\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of history and Red Cedar Distinguished Faculty at Michigan State University. Previously, she has been associate professor of history at Indiana University and a resident fellow at the International Research Center \"Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History\" of Humboldt University, Germany, and at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She was also an instructor in the Department of History at the United States Air Force Academy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51181913637138,"sku":"9780821420898","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2f965462-264d-48dd-9ff1-7696a77b471a.jpg?v=1744408872","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/violent-intermediaries-african-soldiers-conquest-and-everyday-colonialism-in-german-east-africa-9780821420898","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}