Traders and trade in colonial Ovamboland, 1925-1990 : elite formation and the politics of consumption under indirect rule and apartheid / / Gregor Dobler

• Autore: Dobler Gregor <1971->
• Pubblicazione: Basel, Switzerland : , : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Disciplina: 381.109492021
• Soggetto topico: Stores, Retail - Namibia - Owambo - History - 20th century; Merchants - Namibia - Owambo - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Owambo (Namibia) Commerce History 20th century; Namibia Politics and government 1946-1990; Namibia Economic conditions 20th century; Namibia Social conditions 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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, 1925-1952 ; Institutional 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 war ; 5. 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 elites ; Profiting 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 cover
• Titolo autorizzato: Traders and trade in colonial Ovamboland, 1925-1990
• ISBN: 3-905758-56-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810453203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Basel Namibia studies series ; ; 8.