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Leader LDR nam a 00
Control # 1 hbl99056954
Control # Id 3 GCG
Date 5 20210401160643.0
Fixed Data 8 130905s2011 nyuab b 001 0 eng d
LC Card 10    $a2010042796
ISBN 20    $a9780231701945 (hbk)
ISBN 20    $a0231701942 (hbk)
Obsolete 39    $a280258$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aGCG
LC Call 50 00 $aDT1575$b.W35 2011
ME:Pers Name 100 $aWallace, Marion.
Title 245 12 $aA history of Namibia :$bfrom the beginning to 1990 /$cMarion Wallace with John Kinahan.
Imprint 260    $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$cc2011.
Phys Descrpt 300    $axxi, 451 p. :$bill., maps ;$c23 cm.
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.317-427) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aFrom the beginning : the archaeological evidence / John Kinahan -- Politics, trade, and transformation : southern and central Namibia, 1730-1870 -- Monarchy, power, and change : the north, 1750-1907 -- The shadow of protection, 1870-93 -- Under German rule, 1894-1903 -- The Namibian War, 1904-8 -- Building a German colony, 1908-15 -- South African rule, 1915-46 -- Nationalism and apartheid, 1946-70 -- Liberation struggles and the retreat from apartheid, 1971-90.
Abstract 520    $a"Namibia gained its independence in 1990 after decades of struggle against South African rule. Before its battles with South Africa, the country spent years within the grip of German colonialism. In this book, the first general history of Namibia to be published in more than two decades, a celebrated historian and a renowned archaeologist provide fresh perspective on these events, as well as a detailed account of the country's precolonial period. The volume begins with an absorbing history of Namibia from earliest times to the arrival of German colonialism in the ninteenth century. Drawing on sources in English and German, the authors explore trajectories of migration, production, and power in the precolonial period, changes triggered by European expansion, and the dynamics of formal colonialism. They relate the full experience of German rule, including the genocide of 1904-1908, the wars of central and southern Namibia, and the fate of defeated Africans who were imprisoned in concentration camps. Final chapters discuss African nationalism, apartheid, and war between 1946 and 1990, and the development of Namibia in the two decades since independence. An invaluable introduction and resource, this volume reasserts Namibia's crucial role in the history of southern Africa and, with its rich insight and extensive bibliography, furthers responsible research on the country and the continient." -- book jacket
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aNamibia$xHistory.
AE:Pers Name 700 $aKinahan, John.