South-West Africa under German Rule 1894-1914 - Bley, Helmut & Ridley, Hugh

Considers the colonial system in its totality, rather than fixating on the resistance wars and their bloody consequences. Our study has shown .. that the Civil Servants, the settlers, and even colonial economic experts were largely conditioned by social matrices: those of the feudal lord, the great personality. The utter incompatibility of the rulers and the ruled resulted from an explosive combination of a need for self-expression - for which one must seek social psychological explanations with modern European organizational methods; either of which would have been sufficient to cause a major social conflict with the traditional African world.

Hardcover. English. Northwestern University Press. 1971. ISBN: 9780810103467 . 303 pp. Bookplate of JB Peires on inside front cover, otherwise good condition. Book No: 2505998