Research Catalog

Title

Words cannot be found : German colonial rule in Namibia : an annotated reprint of the 1918 Blue Book / by Jeremy Silvester and Jan-Bart Gewald.

Author

South-West Africa. Administrator's Office

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Silvester, Jeremy
• Gewald, Jan-Bart

Description

xxxvii, 366 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The 1918 'Blue Book' Report on the Natives of South-West Africa and Their Treatment by Germany, is based on the voluntary statements taken under oath of no less than 50 African witnesses. This testimony was combined with numerous German colonial documents to produce not only a stinging indictment of German colonial policy in German South West Africa, but also a number of detailed eyewitness accounts of the first genocide of the twentieth century. However, within ten years of being printed, orders were issued for the destruction of all copies of the Blue Book within the British Empire. The editors of this volume have investigated how the Blue Book came into being, provided background information to the events and people described, and sought to discover the original German documents upon which so much of the Blue Book material is based. The documentation of African testimonies makes this book particularly useful to all those interested in African and colonial history, human rights and the history of genocide."--Page 4 of cover.

Series Statement

Sources for African history, 1570-8721 ; v. 1

Uniform Title

• Report on the natives of South-West Africa and their treatment by Germany. 1918.
• Sources for African history v. 1.

Subject

• Geschichte
• 1884-1915
• Indigenous peoples > Namibia > Government relations
• Namibia > History > 1884-1915

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-360) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Footsteps and tears: an Introduction to the Construction and Context of the 1918 Blue Book -- REPORT ON THE NATIVES OF SOUTH-WEST AFRICA AND THEIR TREATMENT BY GERMANY -- Preface -- Part One: Natives and German Administration -- I: How German influence was introduced into South-West Africa -- II: First acquisitions of land -- III: Germanys declared policy in regard to the native races -- IV: First steps after annexation -- V: The massacre at Hornkrantz -- VI: Leutwein and the Protection Agreements -- VII: Native population statistics -- VIII: The Hereros of South-West Africa -- IX: Confiscation of Herero cattle by the German Government -- X: The German traders and how they traded -- XI: Gradual appropriation of Hereroland and violation of Herero customs -- XII: The value set on native life by the Germans -- XIII: The outbreak of the Herero rising and the humanity of the Herero -- XIV: Preliminary steps and treachery of the Germans -- XV: How the Hereros were exterminated -- XVI: The Hottentots of South-West Africa -- XVII: Laws and customs of the Hottentots -- XVIII: The Hottentots under German protection -- XIX: The Bondelswartz rising of 1903 and the general Hottentot Rising of 1904-7 -- XX: The treatment of the Hottentots in war and of the Hereros and Hottentots after surrender -- XXI: The Berg-Damaras of South-West Africa -- XXII: The policy of Germany after the great rising of the natives up to the British conquest of South-West Africa in 1915 -- XXIII: The Bastards of Rehoboth -- XXIV: The Ovambos of South West-Africa -- XV: The Bushmen of South West-Africa -- Part Two: Natives and the Criminal Law -- I: The native as an accused person -- II: The position of a native when complainant -- III: The relations between Germans and natives as evinced in Criminal proceedings after our occupation -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.

ISBN

9004129812 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003044435

OCLC

• 51855244
• SCSB-10196562

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library