Table of Contents

Part 1 Construction of people and state: internal pacification, Robert Gordon; women and VD in Windhoek, Marion Wallace; pastoral economies, Jeremy Sylvester; gender, labour and politics in Ovamboland, Patricia Hayes. Part 2 The reserves: the Herero in the inter-war period, Gesine Kruger and Dag Henrichsen; power and trade in northern Kaokoland, Micahel Bollig; reistance in a native reserve, Ben Fuller. Part 3 Beyond the police zone - Ovamboland: migration in the Oshigambo and Elim parishes, Harri Sliskonen; the ambiguities of resistance, Wolfram Hartman; the borderline by Petrus Ndongo; the Namibia-Angola boundary demarcation, Randolph Vigne.

Reviews

Namibian history is notoriously under-researched. Much important work has been done in recent years in doctoral and other theses but very little of this has been published. The first three decades of South African rule have been especially neglected. ... It is to be hoped that the collection will inspire more work on the many grey areas that remain unexplored in Namibian history. -
*OURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY*

A particularly commendable feature of this publication is the provision of carefully selected photographs that function as a visual commentary to many of the arguments presented. -
*INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL HISTORY*

...packed with detail and with material which should interest not just Namibia specialists, but also many others who simply want to know how the Namibian people withstood the crucial first thirty years of South African occupation. -
*AFRICAN AFFAIRS*

...highly innovative volume. -
*INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES*