Africa: What It Gave Me, What It Took from Me: Remembrances from My Life as a German Settler in South West Africa

Author:   Margarethe von Eckenbrecher ,  David P. Crandall ,  Hans-Wilhelm Kelling ,  Paul E. Kerry
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Pages:   398
Publication Date:   28 May 2015
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Author:   Margarethe von Eckenbrecher ,  David P. Crandall ,  Hans-Wilhelm Kelling ,  Paul E. Kerry
Publisher:   Lehigh University Press
Imprint:   Lehigh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.726kg
ISBN:  

9781611461503


ISBN 10:   1611461502
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   28 May 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgments Biographical Entries A Reader’s Introduction Book I Preface Leaving Home 1. The First Ten Days 2. Las Palmas 3. Monrovia 4. Nifu 5. Mossamdes 6. Port Alexander 7. Swakopmund 8. The Journey to Karibib 9. Karibib 10. By Oxcart from Karibib to Okombahe Okombahe 1. Something about the Natives of the Colony 2. The Activities of the Missionaries in the Protectorate 3. Our First Abode 4. Worries of a Housewife 5. Building Our Home 6. Future Plans and Disappointments 7. Cattle Raising 8. Gui-Gams 9. Cultivating a Garden 10. Experiences and Observations 11. Spitzkoppies Insurrection 1. Foreboding Weather 2. The Insurrection Begins 3. A Dangerous Ride 4. In the Fortress 5. Under the Protection of the Franke Company 6. In the Barracks at Omaruru 7. My Return to Germany Book II A Note to my Readers The New South West 1. My Return to South West Africa 2. Our Idealic Life in Klein-Windhuk How I Experienced the First World War 1. The Impending Storm 2. The Future is Foreshadowed in Everyday Events 3. The People of the Colony Prepare Themselves 4. Mobilization 5. South Africa Begins Hostilities 6. Treachery at Naulila 7. Our Commander Dies 8. A Punitive Expedition to Naulila 9. The Baster War 10. The Germans must be Cleared Out 11. General Botha Occupies Windhuk 12. An Honorable Surrender 13. Living under Martial Law South West Becomes a League of Nations Mandate 1. Dissolution? 2. Expulsions 3. The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 4. Changes 5. New Unrest 6. The House on the Mountain 7. Life under Mandate Rule 8. Our German Schools 9. My Sons 10. Hunting in the African Bush and a Return to our Home in Okombahe 11. From the Brandberg to Franzfontein 12. Korichaams 13. Etoscha and the Waterberg 14. 1934: The Year of Torrential Rains 15. Of Diamonds, Gold, and other Treasures A Concluding and Final Word Postscript

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David P. Crandall is associate professor of anthropology at Brigham Young University. Hans-Wilhelm Kelling is professor of German studies at Brigham Young University. Paul Kerry is associate professor History at Brigham Young University and associate visiting research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.

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