Title: The Rehobother Baster Nation of Namibia by Maximilian Bayer
Author: Maximilian Bayer
Translation: Peter Carstens
Series: Beiträge zur Afrikakunde, Band 6
Publisher: Basler Afrika-Bibliographien
Basel, 1984
ISBN 3905141388 / ISBN 3-905141-38-8
Softcover, 15 x 21 cm, 54 pages, 2 maps, 1 bw photo
Good. Minor traces of usage, inside fresh and clean.
Maximilian Bayer's essay on the Rehoboth Basters first appeared in print in September 1906 when it was published in the periodical 'Zeitschrift für Kolonialpolitik, Kolonialrecht und Kolonialwirtschaft', titled "Die Nation der Bastards". Later that year Wilhelm Süsserott published the essay separately, although it is possible that the off-print was not in circulation until 1907. In some ways the essay is a German Schutztruppen officer's eulogy of the Basters for their "outstanding military service" to the German colonial establishment between the years 1894 and 1904. It also provides a short social history of the Basters from the perspective of a writer quite sympathetic to the Baster cause. The purpose of this English translation is to add another accessible work to the literature on the Basters, and also to illustrate the special position that the Rehoboth Nation occupied under German rule.
Acknowledgements
Editor's introduction
Biographical note on Maximilian Bayer
Provisional bibliography of Maximilian
Bayer's published works
The Baster Nation of Namibia
Editor's notes to Bayer's text
References