04505nam 2200697 450 991081045320332120200903223051.03-905758-56-3(CKB)2670000000587396(EBL)1919414(SSID)ssj0001496766(PQKBManifestationID)11839913(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001496766(PQKBWorkID)11488482(PQKB)11671790(MiAaPQ)EBC1919414(OCoLC)898755740(MdBmJHUP)muse43537(Au-PeEL)EBL1919414(CaPaEBR)ebr11033545(CaONFJC)MIL681505(OCoLC)900345994(PPN)187343829(EXLCZ)99267000000058739620150328h20142014 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrTraders and trade in colonial Ovamboland, 1925-1990 elite formation and the politics of consumption under indirect rule and apartheid /Gregor DoblerBasel, Switzerland :Basler Afrika Bibliographien,2014.©20141 online resource (282 p.)Basel Namibia Studies Series,2296-6986 ;8Description based upon print version of record.3-905758-40-7 1-322-50223-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgment; Introduction; A short literature review; Trade and consumption; Modern elites; Civil society; Structures and agency in domination; Ovamboland: a short geographical and historical outline; Terminology, Methods, Sources; The book's story line; 1. The early years: from itinerant traders to monopoly stores; The era of trade expeditions and mission trade (1850-1925); Missionary trade; Migrant workers; Early attempts to open stores; The establishment of the first stores; 2. The monopoly stores, 1925-1952Institutional history of the monopoly stores Trade organization and shopping; Turnover; Getting supplies to Ovamboland; Trade and the administration; 3. The first locally owned stores, 1937-1955; The pioneer: Simon Galoua in Ombalantu; Population growth and settlement expansion after 1927; The first wave of new traders, 1951-55; Why Stores?; 4. From indirect rule to liberation war: Ovamboland 1948-1978; Modernizing the administration, 1948-1978; Changing South African Policies; Ovamboland administration under apartheid; Apartheid development policy; Liberation movement and guerrilla war5. Traders in a modernizing society Three biographies of early traders; Types of stores; Turnover; Stock and supplies; The social role of traders; Credit and traders' networks; 6. Stores and spatial organization after 1950; "Piccanins with guns" - Ondangwa in 1950; The geography of stores, 1950-1965; Central Ukwanyama: development stalled by the war; Small towns: New centers in the rural areas; Ondangwa and Oshakati: the new towns; Frontier spaces: Social life in the new towns; 7. Taking sides? Traders and politics during the liberation war; Traders between old and new elitesProfiting or dying: Traders in war Traders as development partners for a modernizing administration; Civil society or uncivil despotism?; Conclusion; Trade in central-northern Namibia after 1990; Colonial domination and local elites in Ovamboland; Homeland development and economic structures; Consumption, trade and social order; Entrepreneurship, dependency and economic structures; Annex: Price List Ondjodjo and Omafo 1941; List of Illustrations; References; Index; Back coverBasel Namibia studies series ;8.Stores, RetailNamibiaOwamboHistory20th centuryMerchantsNamibiaOwamboHistory20th centuryOwambo (Namibia)CommerceHistory20th centuryNamibiaPolitics and government1946-1990NamibiaEconomic conditions20th centuryNamibiaSocial conditions20th centuryStores, RetailHistoryMerchantsHistory381.109492021Dobler Gregor1971-1362444MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810453203321Traders and trade in colonial Ovamboland, 1925-19903969234UNINA