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978-1-61146-150-3 • Hardback • May 2015 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
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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.
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