Michelle Moyd
Biographic Data
| ID | 126074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Moyd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Moyd |
| SIGNATURE | MOYD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Globalizing Europe: A History
Globalizing Europe explores modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the continent not only as an engine but also as a product of global transformations. It looks at the ways in which the global movements of peoples and ideas, goods and raw materials, flora and fauna have impacted life on the continent over the centuries. Bringing together a group of leading historians, the book shows how the history of Europe can be…
Cross-examining the Kagera War: A Plea for Multidirectional Postcolonialism
Military historians can benefit from »multidirectional« postcolonial analyses, which open new possibilities for studying war and militarization. Gendered analysis of the 1978–1979 Kagera War between Tanzania and Uganda crosses the different registers of postcolonialism, inviting military historians to account for war’s multidirectional effects within one frame
African Military Historiography
In Service of Empires: Apaches and Askaris as Colonial Soldiers
Human Rights and German Intellectual History in Transnational Perspective
Human rights, recently, have been a controversial topic. A debate has unfolded that includes concerns about their political instrumentalization, appropriation, and narrowing, as well as fundamental critiques about their viability from leftist and right-wing perspectives. On the one hand human rights today are seen as central to domestic and international politics; on the other hand their legitimacy is questioned more than ever (see Benhabib 8–11)…
Military and Police
Colonial ideologues viewed soldiers and policemen as champions of order, strength and discipline. On the other hand, African nationalists and critics of colonial oppression described them as collaborators or traitors to the nationalist cause. Léopold Sédar Senghor spoke about the Tirailleurs sénégalais as the ‘Black watchdogs of Empire’; Sylvanus Olympio characterized them as ‘mercenaries’; and Frantz Fanon named them the ‘spokespersons of the co…
Eleven Military and Police
Radical potentials, conservative realities: African veterans of the German colonial army in post-World War I Tanganyika
During World War I, African colonial soldiers (askari) of the Schutztruppe für Deutsch Ostafrika fought a difficult campaign in German East Africa. In November 1918, they surrendered to the British alongside their commander, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. Within a few months, their German officers had left East Africa to return to Germany. Most of the ex-askari found it difficult to make new lives for themselves in Tanganyika, as the former Ger…
Introduction: The League of Nations Mandates and the Temporality of Deferral
On June 28, 1919, Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations came into force, establishing three types of “mandatory” power over the territories that had fallen into the hands of the victors of the Great War. The now cringe-worthy text of Article 22 seems worth quoting at length: To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and …
From a hurt sense of honor’: Violence work and the limits of soldierly obedience on a scientific expedition in German East Africa, 1896–1897
In 1896, a German army lieutenant led a militarized geographic expedition across German East Africa. Testimonies generated during an inquiry into the officer’s various abuses during the expedition illustrate how tensions between Werther and his soldiers shaped their uses of violence as they marched from the coast to the interior in search of gold and other possibilities for colonial economic extraction. The testimonies also offer rare insight int…
Color Lines, Front Lines
Research Article| May 01 2018 Color Lines, Front Lines: The First World War from the South Michelle Moyd Michelle Moyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 13–35. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355109 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Michelle Moyd; Color Lines, Front Lines: The First World War from the South. Radical History R…
A Would-Be Empire”: German Colonial History Comes of Age
German colonial history has come of age. This outstanding collection of essays is a testament both to the volume of historical scholarship produced on German colonialism since the 1980s and to the many potential paths it might follow in the future. The volume’s essays, written by a new generation of historians of German colonialism, reveal a surprising range of hitherto understudied aspects of German colonial history. As such, these authors also …
Centring a sideshow: Local experiences of the First World War in Africa
The African campaigns of First World War should be thought of as more than ‘sideshows.’ Rather, historians should research local, ordinary African experiences of the war in order to better understand African perspectives on the war, and also to generate narratives that can be integrated into more inclusive histories of the global war. This essay suggests several different vantage points which could prove generative for a new historiography of the…
What's Wrong with Doing Good? Reflections on Africa, Humanitarianism, and the Challenge of the Global
What’s Wrong with Doing Good? Reflections on Africa, Humanitarianism, and the Challenge of the Global Michelle Moyd For the last year or so, I have been preparing to teach a new course on the history of humanitarianism, with a particular emphasis on what I label the ethics of doing good. As a historian of eastern African soldiers, militaries, and violence, I have long thought about humanitarianism in relation to how African peoples have coped wit…
‘We don't want to die for nothing’: Askari at war in German East Africa, 1914–1918
The First World War initially came to East Africa as a rumour. Mzee Ali, a senior askari, recalled how he first heard in late 1914 of the ‘great and terrible war’ that would soon engulf German East Africa
Beyond the State in Rural Uganda
Making the Household, Making the State: Colonial Military Communities and Labor in German East Africa
This essay uses German East Africa as a historical example to illustrate some of the complex interrelationships between colonial labor and military practices. Analysis of African soldiers' roles in colonial labor regimes underscores the degree to which colonial militaries, labor, and punitive structures reinforced each other on a daily basis. Colonial states depended on their African soldiers, and the free and unfree laborers they recruited, cons…
Chapter Four. “All People Were Barbarians To The Askari …”: Askari Identity And Honor In The Maji Maji War, 1905–1907
In the history of colonial warfare in East Africa, the Maji Maji conflict represented an intensification of tactics and strategies that had already been applied by the German Schutztruppe during the previous fifteen years in the conquest of German East Africa. This chapter attempts a deconstruction of the askari as mercenary, and investigates the content of the term mercenary as it applies to them. Many askari considered themselves Muslim. Contem…
The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethno-Religious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast, Janet McIntosh
Reviewed by: The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethno-Religious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast Michelle Moyd McIntosh, Janet. 2009. The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethno-Religious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 325pp., $84.95 (cloth), $23.95 (paper). In this methodologically innovative, provocative, and timely study, Janet McIntosh effectively challenges common assumptions made by scholars…
Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century (review)
Reviewed by: Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century Michelle Moyd Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century. By Gregory Mann. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. The Oscar-nominated film Indigenes introduced moviegoers to the story of North African soldiers from the former French empire who helped liberate France from Nazi occupation during World War II. The film gives audie…
German Women for Empire, 1884-1945
Making the Household, Making the State: Colonial Military Communities and Labor in German East Africa
This essay uses German East Africa as a historical example to illustrate some of the complex interrelationships between colonial labor and military practices. Analysis of African soldiers' roles in colonial labor regimes underscores the degree to which colonial militaries, labor, and punitive structures reinforced each other on a daily basis. Colonial states depended on their African soldiers, and the free and unfree laborers they recruited, cons…
Centring a sideshow: Local experiences of the First World War in Africa
The African campaigns of First World War should be thought of as more than ‘sideshows.’ Rather, historians should research local, ordinary African experiences of the war in order to better understand African perspectives on the war, and also to generate narratives that can be integrated into more inclusive histories of the global war. This essay suggests several different vantage points which could prove generative for a new historiography of the…
Color Lines, Front Lines
Research Article| May 01 2018 Color Lines, Front Lines: The First World War from the South Michelle Moyd Michelle Moyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 13–35. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355109 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Michelle Moyd; Color Lines, Front Lines: The First World War from the South. Radical History R…
Radical potentials, conservative realities: African veterans of the German colonial army in post-World War I Tanganyika
During World War I, African colonial soldiers (askari) of the Schutztruppe für Deutsch Ostafrika fought a difficult campaign in German East Africa. In November 1918, they surrendered to the British alongside their commander, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. Within a few months, their German officers had left East Africa to return to Germany. Most of the ex-askari found it difficult to make new lives for themselves in Tanganyika, as the former Ger…
What's Wrong with Doing Good? Reflections on Africa, Humanitarianism, and the Challenge of the Global
What’s Wrong with Doing Good? Reflections on Africa, Humanitarianism, and the Challenge of the Global Michelle Moyd For the last year or so, I have been preparing to teach a new course on the history of humanitarianism, with a particular emphasis on what I label the ethics of doing good. As a historian of eastern African soldiers, militaries, and violence, I have long thought about humanitarianism in relation to how African peoples have coped wit…
German Women for Empire, 1884-1945
Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century (review)
Reviewed by: Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century Michelle Moyd Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century. By Gregory Mann. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006. The Oscar-nominated film Indigenes introduced moviegoers to the story of North African soldiers from the former French empire who helped liberate France from Nazi occupation during World War II. The film gives audie…
Chapter Four. “All People Were Barbarians To The Askari …”: Askari Identity And Honor In The Maji Maji War, 1905–1907
In the history of colonial warfare in East Africa, the Maji Maji conflict represented an intensification of tactics and strategies that had already been applied by the German Schutztruppe during the previous fifteen years in the conquest of German East Africa. This chapter attempts a deconstruction of the askari as mercenary, and investigates the content of the term mercenary as it applies to them. Many askari considered themselves Muslim. Contem…
The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethno-Religious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast, Janet McIntosh
Reviewed by: The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethno-Religious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast Michelle Moyd McIntosh, Janet. 2009. The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethno-Religious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 325pp., $84.95 (cloth), $23.95 (paper). In this methodologically innovative, provocative, and timely study, Janet McIntosh effectively challenges common assumptions made by scholars…
‘We don't want to die for nothing’: Askari at war in German East Africa, 1914–1918
The First World War initially came to East Africa as a rumour. Mzee Ali, a senior askari, recalled how he first heard in late 1914 of the ‘great and terrible war’ that would soon engulf German East Africa
Beyond the State in Rural Uganda
Making the Household, Making the State: Colonial Military Communities and Labor in German East Africa
This essay uses German East Africa as a historical example to illustrate some of the complex interrelationships between colonial labor and military practices. Analysis of African soldiers' roles in colonial labor regimes underscores the degree to which colonial militaries, labor, and punitive structures reinforced each other on a daily basis. Colonial states depended on their African soldiers, and the free and unfree laborers they recruited, cons…
Centring a sideshow: Local experiences of the First World War in Africa
The African campaigns of First World War should be thought of as more than ‘sideshows.’ Rather, historians should research local, ordinary African experiences of the war in order to better understand African perspectives on the war, and also to generate narratives that can be integrated into more inclusive histories of the global war. This essay suggests several different vantage points which could prove generative for a new historiography of the…
What's Wrong with Doing Good? Reflections on Africa, Humanitarianism, and the Challenge of the Global
What’s Wrong with Doing Good? Reflections on Africa, Humanitarianism, and the Challenge of the Global Michelle Moyd For the last year or so, I have been preparing to teach a new course on the history of humanitarianism, with a particular emphasis on what I label the ethics of doing good. As a historian of eastern African soldiers, militaries, and violence, I have long thought about humanitarianism in relation to how African peoples have coped wit…
A Would-Be Empire”: German Colonial History Comes of Age
German colonial history has come of age. This outstanding collection of essays is a testament both to the volume of historical scholarship produced on German colonialism since the 1980s and to the many potential paths it might follow in the future. The volume’s essays, written by a new generation of historians of German colonialism, reveal a surprising range of hitherto understudied aspects of German colonial history. As such, these authors also …
From a hurt sense of honor’: Violence work and the limits of soldierly obedience on a scientific expedition in German East Africa, 1896–1897
In 1896, a German army lieutenant led a militarized geographic expedition across German East Africa. Testimonies generated during an inquiry into the officer’s various abuses during the expedition illustrate how tensions between Werther and his soldiers shaped their uses of violence as they marched from the coast to the interior in search of gold and other possibilities for colonial economic extraction. The testimonies also offer rare insight int…
Color Lines, Front Lines
Research Article| May 01 2018 Color Lines, Front Lines: The First World War from the South Michelle Moyd Michelle Moyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 13–35. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-4355109 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Michelle Moyd; Color Lines, Front Lines: The First World War from the South. Radical History R…
Military and Police
Colonial ideologues viewed soldiers and policemen as champions of order, strength and discipline. On the other hand, African nationalists and critics of colonial oppression described them as collaborators or traitors to the nationalist cause. Léopold Sédar Senghor spoke about the Tirailleurs sénégalais as the ‘Black watchdogs of Empire’; Sylvanus Olympio characterized them as ‘mercenaries’; and Frantz Fanon named them the ‘spokespersons of the co…
Eleven Military and Police
Radical potentials, conservative realities: African veterans of the German colonial army in post-World War I Tanganyika
During World War I, African colonial soldiers (askari) of the Schutztruppe für Deutsch Ostafrika fought a difficult campaign in German East Africa. In November 1918, they surrendered to the British alongside their commander, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. Within a few months, their German officers had left East Africa to return to Germany. Most of the ex-askari found it difficult to make new lives for themselves in Tanganyika, as the former Ger…
Introduction: The League of Nations Mandates and the Temporality of Deferral
On June 28, 1919, Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations came into force, establishing three types of “mandatory” power over the territories that had fallen into the hands of the victors of the Great War. The now cringe-worthy text of Article 22 seems worth quoting at length: To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and …
Human Rights and German Intellectual History in Transnational Perspective
Human rights, recently, have been a controversial topic. A debate has unfolded that includes concerns about their political instrumentalization, appropriation, and narrowing, as well as fundamental critiques about their viability from leftist and right-wing perspectives. On the one hand human rights today are seen as central to domestic and international politics; on the other hand their legitimacy is questioned more than ever (see Benhabib 8–11)…
In Service of Empires: Apaches and Askaris as Colonial Soldiers
African Military Historiography
Cross-examining the Kagera War: A Plea for Multidirectional Postcolonialism
Military historians can benefit from »multidirectional« postcolonial analyses, which open new possibilities for studying war and militarization. Gendered analysis of the 1978–1979 Kagera War between Tanzania and Uganda crosses the different registers of postcolonialism, inviting military historians to account for war’s multidirectional effects within one frame
Globalizing Europe: A History
Globalizing Europe explores modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the continent not only as an engine but also as a product of global transformations. It looks at the ways in which the global movements of peoples and ideas, goods and raw materials, flora and fauna have impacted life on the continent over the centuries. Bringing together a group of leading historians, the book shows how the history of Europe can be…
Political science (17 works) · History (16 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Ancient history (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · African history and culture studies (9 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (9 works) · German (8 works) · History (8 works)