Traders and trade in colonial Ovamboland, 1925-1990

Traders and Trade in Colonial Ovamboland, 1925-1990 introduces to the history of traders and trading stores in twentieth century northern Namibia.
Dobler, Gregor
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978-3-905758-40-5
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Title: Traders and trade in colonial Ovamboland, 1925-1990
Subtitle: Elite Formation and the Politics of Consumption under Indirect Rule and Apartheid
Author: Gregor Dobler
Series: Basel Southern Africa Studies 8
Publisher: Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Basel, Switzerland 2014
ISBN 9783905758405 / ISBN 978-3-905758-40-5
Softcover, 17 x 24 cm, 280 pages, several photographs, maps and tables, Text: English

Description:

Traders and trade in colonial Ovamboland, 1925-1990 is a book on the history of traders and trading stores in twentieth century northern Namibia. Through the prism of trade, it offers a detailed account of social and political change in the region the colonial authorities called Ovamboland. Labour migration, colonial rule in its changing forms, local social differentiation, urbanisation and the struggle for liberation were all crucially linked to the history of shops and their owners. Gregor Dobler's main focus lies on the time between 1925, when the first stores were opened, and 1990, when the former homeland Ovamboland became an integral part of independent Namibia.

Content: Traders and trade in colonial Ovamboland, 1925-1990

Acknowledgment
Introduction
The early years: from itinerant traders to monopoly stores
The monopoly stores, 1925-1952
The first locally owned stores, 1937-1955
From indirect rule to liberation war: Ovamboland, 1948-1978
Traders in a modernizing society
Stores and spatial organization after 1950
Taking sides? Traders and politics during the liberation war
Conclusion
Annex
Archival sources
List of Illustrations
References
Index