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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"German South West Africa"”.
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Space and spatiality in the colonial discourse of German South West Africa 1884-1915
… confined myself to the colonial discourse of German South West Africa in the period 1884-1915. The central thesis developed here is that discourse develops strategies for enclosing spaces by demarkating borders, privileging certain passages between spaces and blocking others. This organization …
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Reconsideration of the Battle of Sandfontein : the first phase of the German South West Africa campaign, August to September 1914
This thesis investigates the first phase of the German South West African military campaign during August - September 1914, conducted by the Union Defence Force on behalf of the South African government and British Empire. Its primary focus concerns the battle of Sandfontein on 26 September, and it …
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Letters of stone
… and he said nothing about his flight from Nazi Germany or the fate of his family who remained there, until Steven, now a young anthropologist, interviewed him in the year before he died. Steven became obsessed with finding out what happened to the women in the photograph, but the information …
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A cognitive stylistics study of the Nama-Herero genocide in Kubuitsile’s the scattering, Utley’s lie of the land, Tjingaete’s the weeping graves of our ancestors and Van Den Berg’s parts unknown
… Herero and Nama people suffered at the hands of German colonial rule, whereby natives were incarcerated, tortured, raped, and killed and their livestock confiscation. This was achieved through the examination of literary creativity through the use of cognitive ii metaphor, genocidal trauma, and …
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Untersuchungen zur Kartographiegeschichte von Namibia
… Entwicklung afrikanischer und im Besonderen südwestafrikanischer Karten zeigt drei Phasen: Zunächst erfolgte die Aufnahme der Küsten während der Entdeckungsreisen des 15. und 16. Jhs. und durch spezielle Forschungsreisen vor allem im 17. und beginnenden 18. Jh. Die Erforschung und …