Jan-Bart Gewald
Jan-Bart Gewald is a historian specialized in the social history of Africa.
His research has ranged from the ramifications of genocide in Rwanda and Namibia, through to the socio-cultural parameters of trans-desert trade in Africa. In addition, he has conducted research on pan-Africanism in Ghana, spirit possession in the Republic of Niger, Dutch development cooperation, Africa in the context of globalisation, and social history in Eritrea.
Furthermore he has a particular interest in archaeology, and has participated in archaeological research in southern Africa. Within the theme group Agency in Africa he is working on a project dealing with the social history of the motor car in Zambia in the 20th century.
He was recently awarded funding by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for a five year inter-institutional multi-disciplinary research programme within the social sciences and humanities entitled, ICE in Africa: the relationship between people and the Internal Combustion Engine in Africa. The research will be funded by NWO within the context of the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme within which Jan-Bart Gewald is one of the Vidi laureates for 2005.
Jan-Bart Gewald was awarded research funding with Robert Ross in the NWO humanities for a programme entitled: "From Muskets to Nokias: Technology, Consumption and Social Change in Central Africa from Pre-Colonial Times to the Present".
On a personal note, Jan-Bart grew up in Africa and has lived in Botswana, Congo Kinshasa, Eritrea, Ghana, Namibia, Niger, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
Print
Dr.
J.B.
(Jan-Bart)
Gewald
Email adress: gewald@ascleiden.nl
Link to publications by Jan-Bart Gewald in the ASC catalogue (link opens in a new window)
Senior researcher
Email adress: gewald@ascleiden.nl
Phone number: +31 (0)71 527 3370
ASC room number: 3.A13
Link to publications by Jan-Bart Gewald in the ASC catalogue (link opens in a new window)
From the land of ‘milk and honey’ to ‘permanent famine’: a socio-political history of Western Zambia 1940-1972
Rethinking contemporary African history and historiography
Roads to prosperity and their social zones of transit: comparing cases in Southern and West Africa through time
Society, labour, technology and consumption: the establishment of colonial rule in Northern Rhodesia, 1890-1924.
The enduring legacy of German colonial rule and the League of Nations mandate in the borderlands of contemporary Africa
Displaying 1 - 129 of 129
Transforming innovations in Africa: explorative studies on appropriation in African societies (2012)
Type of Publication: Book
Die Spanische Grippe in Afrika: Einige Anmerkungen zu Quellenlage und zukünftiger Forschung (2011)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
On becoming a chief in the Kaokoveld, colonial Namibia, 1916 -25 (2011)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
A Teutonic ethnologist in the Windhoek district: Günther Wagner and the unpublished ethnographic survey (2011)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Living the end of empire: politics and society in late colonial Zambia (2011)
Type of Publication: Book
African miners and shape shifting flight capital: the case of Baluba Luanshya (2010)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Gold the true motor of West African history: an overview of the importance of gold in West Africa and its relations with the wider world (2010)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Remote but in contact with history and the world (2010)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000 (2009)
Type of Publication: Book
Mbadamassi of Lagos: a soldier for King and Kaiser, and a deportee to German South West Africa (2009)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Motor vehicles and people in Africa: an introduction (2009)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
People, mines and cars: towards a revision of Zambian History, 1890-1930 (2009)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Review of "Mineworkers in Zambia: labour and political change in post-colonial Africa" by M. Larmer (2009)
Type of Publication: Review
'No insignificant part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War' written by Timothy J. Stapleton (2008)
Type of Publication: Review
'Mining and the Colonial State in Northern Rhodesia, c. 1930-64' written by L.J. Butler (2008)
Type of Publication: Review
'Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth Century East Africa' written by Stephen J. Rockel (2008)
Type of Publication: Review
From the Old Location to Bishops Hill: the politics of urban planning and landscape history in Windhoek, Namibia (2008)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Introduction (2008)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Colonial warfare : Hehe and World War One, the wars besides Maji Maji in south-western Tanzania (2008)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
One Zambia, many histories : towards a history of post-colonial Zambia (2008)
Type of Publication: Book
Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa (2007)
Type of Publication: Book
Colonisation, Genocide and Resurgence: The Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923 (2007)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Coming Through Slaughter: The Herero of Namibia, 1904-1940 (2007)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Spanish influenza in Africa : some comments regarding source material and future research (2007)
Type of Publication: Other
Researching and writing in the twilight of an imagined conquest : anthropology in Northern Rhodesia 1930-1960 (2007)
Type of Publication: Other
Transport transforming society : towards a history of transport in Zambia, 1890-1930 (2007)
Type of Publication: Other
Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa (2007)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa : an introduction (2007)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
More than Red Rubber and figures alone : a critical appraisal of the Memory of the Congo exhibition at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium (2006)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Challenging Nationalist "Historiography" in Settler States: Zimbabwe, Kenya and Namibia (2006)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Review of L. Rakner, Political and economic liberalisation in Zambia 1991-2001 (2006)
Type of Publication: Review
Review of E. Ndeshi Namhila, Kaxumba kaNdola: Man and myth: the biography of a barefoot soldier (2006)
Type of Publication: Review
Nationalistische Diskurse einer Befreiungsbewegung an der Macht: Auf dem Wege zu einer patriotischen Geschichte? (2005)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Das deutsche Kaiserreich und die Herero des südlichen Afrika: der Völkermord und die Entschädigungsfrage (2005)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Genozid, Herero-Identität(en) und die Befreiungsbewegung an der Macht (2005)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Review of Zimmerer, J. : Deutsche Herrschaft über Afrikaner: Staatlicher Machtanspruch und Wirklichkeit im kolonialen Namibia (German governance of Africans: stately claims to power, and reality in colonial Namibia) (2005)
Type of Publication: Review
Learning to wage and win wars in Africa : a provisional history of German military activity in Congo, Tanzania, China and Namibia (2005)
Type of Publication: Other
Review of Miescher, G. and Henrichsen, D. : African posters: a catalogue of the poster collection in the Basler Afrika bibliographien (2005)
Type of Publication: Review
The impact of motor-vehicles in Africa in the twentieth century : towards a socio-historical case study (2005)
Type of Publication: Other
Colonial warfare : Hehe and World War One, the wars besides Maji Maji in south-western Tanzania (2005)
Type of Publication: Book
Review of Kuzmierz, K. : Documents on South Africa: The Lienemann Collection (1970-1992) (2005)
Type of Publication: Review
Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture (2004)
Type of Publication: Book
The Herero and Nama Genocides, 1904 - 1908 (2004)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Imperial Germany and the Herero of Southern Africa : genocide and the quest of recompense (2004)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Transformations in Transport in Zambia: Peliminary ideas regarding a social history dealing with the introduction of the motor-car in Zambia, 1890 - 1930 (2004)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Namibia's Past in the Present: Towards Patriotic History? (2004)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Coming through slaughter: The Herero of Namibia 1904 - 1940 (2004)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Colonisation, Genocide and Resurgence: The Herero of Namibia, 1890 - 1923 (2004)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Chief Hosea Kutako: Herero Royal and Namibian Nationalist. A life against confinement, 1870 - 1970 (2004)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Ontwikkelingshulp faalt door onkunde (2004)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Global media and violence in Africa: The case of Somalia (2004)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Urbanisation in Africa, the example of Zambia (2004)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
African History and the Netherlands (2004)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture : an introduction (2004)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Review of Walther, D.J. : Creating Germans abroad: cultural policies and national identity in Namibia (2004)
Type of Publication: Review
Culture de la violence, destruction des normes et déshumanisation en Afrique (2003)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Near death in the streets of Karibib: famine, migrant labour and the coming of Ovambo to central Namibia (2003)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Die Beerdigung von Samuel Maharero und die Reorganisation der Herero (2003)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Kolonisierung, Völkermord und Wiederkehr : die Herero von Namibia 1890-1923 (2003)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Herero genocide in the twentieth century: politics and memory (2003)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
The Herero genocide: German unity, settlers, soldiers, and ideas (2003)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Words cannot be found : German colonial rule in Namibia : an annotated reprint of the 1918 Blue Book (2003)
Type of Publication: Book
Review of Hellberg, C.-J. : Mission colonialism and liberation: the Lutheran Church in Namibia 1840-1966 (2003)
Type of Publication: Review
Review of Oermann, N.O. : Mission, church and state relations in South West Africa under German rule (1884-1915) (2003)
Type of Publication: Review
Review Alexander, J., McGregor, J.and Ranger, T. : Violence & memory: one hundred years in the "dark forests" of Matabeleland (2002)
Type of Publication: Review
Flags, funerals and fanfares: Herero and missionary contestations of the acceptable, 1900-1940 (2002)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
El Negro, El Niño, Witchcraft and the absence of rain in Botswana (2002)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Missionaries, Hereros, and motorcars: mobility and the impact of motor vehicles in Namibia before 1940 (2002)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Diluting drinks and deepening discontent : colonial liquor controls and public resistance in Windhoek, Namibia (2002)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
A Teutonic ethnologist in the Windhoek district: rethinking the anthropology of Guenther Wagner (2002)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
"I was afraid of Samuel, therefore I came to Sekgoma": Herero refugees and patronage politics in Ngamiland, Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1890-1914 (2002)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
From the Old Location to Bishops Hill: the politics of urban planning and landscape history in Windhoek, Namibia (2002)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
From the Anecdotal to the Empirical: A Provisional Exploration of Globalisation and Questions of Ownership with particular focus on Africa (2002)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Globalisation and violence in Africa (2002)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
The first and the last of the Twentieth Century: The Herero and the Rwandan genocides (2002)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
"I was afraid of Samuel, therefore I came to Sekgoma": Herero refugees and patronage politics in Ngamiland, Bechuanaland protectorate 1890-1914 (2001)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Anticipating the Kaiser: German soldiers and the Herero genocide (2001)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Death in the streets of Karibib: the Ovamboland famine of 1915 and its impact on Namibian history (2001)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
El Negro, el Niño, Witchcraft and the absence of rain in Botswana (2001)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Presenting the past to conquer the future: the political use of the Herero genocide in the course of the twentieth century (2001)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
The Herero genocide: Bureaucracy and mass-killing (2001)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
El Negro, el Niño, witchcraft and the absence of rain in Botswana (2001)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Review of Tony Emmett,T. : Popular resistance and the roots of nationalism in Namibia, 1915-1966 (2001)
Type of Publication: Review
Review of Hooper E. : The river: A journey back to the source of HIV and AIDS (2001)
Type of Publication: Review
Mbadamassi of Lagos: a Nigerian soldier for King and Kaiser, and a deportee to German South West Africa (2000)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
"We thought we would be free ..." : socio-cultural aspects of Herero history in Namibia 1915 - 1940 (2000)
Type of Publication: Book
Making tribes: social engineering in the Western Province of British administered Eritrea 1941-52 (2000)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Herero and missionaries: the making of historical sources in the 1920s (2000)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Colonization, genocide and resurgence: the Herero of Namibia 1890-1933 (2000)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
People, cattle and land-transformations of pastoral society : an introduction (2000)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
People, cattle and land : transformations of a pastoral society in southwestern Africa (2000)
Type of Publication: Book
Review of Negash,G. : A history of Tigrinya literature in Eritrea: The oral and the written 1890-1991 (2000)
Type of Publication: Review
Review of Werner, W. : No one will become rich: economy and society in the Herero Reserves in Namibia, 1915-1946 (2000)
Type of Publication: Review
Herero heroes : a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923 (1999)
Type of Publication: Book
Of brothers and war: On becoming a chief in the Kaokoveld 1916-1930 (1999)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Remembering genocide to forget divisions: Namibian Herero identity in post-colonial Namibia (1999)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Religion, Labour and Resistance in Namibia - II - The Road of the Man Called Love and the Sack of Sero: The Herero-German War and the Export of Herero Labour to the South African Rand (1999)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
From Kuruman to Gobabis: Barolong Batlharo traders, trade routes and trade strategies 1880-1904 (1999)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Review of Aas,N.; Sippel,H. : Koloniale Konflikte im Alltag: Eine rechtshistoriche Untersuchung der Auseinandersetxungen des Siedlers Heinrich Langkopp mit der Kolonialverwaltung in Deutsch-Ostafrika und dem Reichsentschadigungsamt (1999)
Type of Publication: Review
Heaven on earth: Herero conceptualisation of land 1920-1940 (1998)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
"We will go to the Jews": The re-introduction of circumcision, polygamy and ritual mutilation, and the redefinition of gender relations in central Namibian Herero society, 1920-1940 (1998)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Mirror images? photographs of Herero commemorations in the 1920s and 1930s (1998)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Football, fanfares and funerals: Herero and missionary contestations of the acceptable, 1900-1940 (1998)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Herero and missionaries: the making of historical sources in the 1920's (1997)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
"We thought we would be free ..." : socio-cultural aspects of Herero history in Namibia 1915 - 1940 (1997)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Review of Drechsler, H. : Südwestafrika unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft. Die großen Land- und Minengesellschaften, 1885-1914 (1997)
Type of Publication: Review
Towards redemption : a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia between 1890 and 1923 (1996)
Type of Publication: Book
Herero annual parades: commemorating to create (1996)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Unburdening myself of Herero history (1995)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
The issue of forced labour in the 'Onjembo' : German South West Africa 1904-1908 (1995)
Type of Publication: Journal Article
Untapped sources: slave exports from southern and central Namibia up to the mid-nineteenth century (1995)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Death by camel: the Herero succession dispute of 1890-1894 (1995)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
History in the making: commemorations of the dead and Herero identity in the 20th century (1994)
Type of Publication: Book Chapter
Seeking to return?, Herero exiles 1904-1923 (1994)
Type of Publication: Book
The curse of Kahimemua: the impact of rinderpest in Hereroland (1994)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Review of Vansina, J. : Paths in the rainsforests: toward a history of political tradition in equatorial Africa (1994)
Type of Publication: Review
The road of the man called Love and the Sack of Sero: The export of Herero labour to the South African Rand, 1890-1914 (1993)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
The return of Herero refugees to Namibia post 1914 (1993)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Bakgalagadi ethnic formation in post independence Namibia (1993)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
The creation of Damaraland: the creation of a new ethnicity? (1993)
Type of Publication: Conference Paper
Hands off Africa!! : an overview and analysis of the ideological, political and socio-economic approaches to African unity expressed at the first All-African People's Conference held in Accra, Ghana in December 1958 (1990)
Type of Publication: Book
'Mountaineers' as mantatees : a critical reassessment of events leading up to the Battle of Dithakong (1989)
Type of Publication: Book
Displaying 1 - 11 of 11
Colonial warfare : Hehe and World War One, the wars besides Maji Maji in south-western Tanzania
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 63, 2005
J.B. Gewald
Full text
From output to outcome? 25 years of IOB evaluations
Amsterdam: Aksant, 2004
Jvan Beurden; J.B. Gewald
Full text
Words cannot be found : German colonial rule in Namibia : an annotated reprint of the 1918 Blue Book
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Sources for African history, ISSN 1570-8721 ; vol. 1 2003
J. Silvester; J.B. Gewald
25 Years IOV-IOB: Competence with Consequence?
Amsterdam: IISG, IISG Working Document 2003
J.B. Gewald; M. Prins
Full text
"We thought we would be free ..." : socio-cultural aspects of Herero history in Namibia 1915 - 1940
Köln: Köppe, History, cultural traditions and innovations in Southern Africa ; vol. 8 2000
J.B. Gewald
Herero heroes : a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923
Oxford: James Currey, 1999
J.B. Gewald
Full text
Towards redemption : a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia between 1890 and 1923
Leiden: Research School CNWS, CNWS publications, ISSN 0925-3084 ; vol. 47 1996
J.B. Gewald
Seeking to return?, Herero exiles 1904-1923
Toronto: [African Studies Association], 1994
J.B. Gewald
Hands off Africa!! : an overview and analysis of the ideological, political and socio-economic approaches to African unity expressed at the first All-African People's Conference held in Accra, Ghana in December 1958
[S.l.]: [s.n.], 1990
J.B. Gewald
'Mountaineers' as mantatees : a critical reassessment of events leading up to the Battle of Dithakong
Leiden: State University, 1989
J.B. Gewald
"A faithful, circumstantial and unvarnished detail of incidents" : a critical reassessment of the accounts relating to Shaka in 'The diary of Henry Francis Fynn'
Leiden: State University, 1989
J.B. Gewald
'Gold the true motor of West African history: an overview of the importance of gold in West Africa and its relations with the wider world'
In: C. Panella: 'Worlds of debts: interdisciplinary perspectives on gold mining in West Africa', Amsterdam: Rozenberg, 2010.
'African miners and shape shifting flight capital: the case of Baluba Luanshya'
In: A. Fraser; M. Larmer: 'Zambia, mining, and neoliberalism boom and bust on the globalized copperbelt', Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
'Motor vehicles and people in Africa: an introduction'
In: K. van Walraven; S. Luning; J.B. Gewald: 'The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2009.
'People, mines and cars: towards a revision of Zambian History, 1890-1930'
In: K. van Walraven; S. Luning; J.B. Gewald: 'The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2009.
'Introduction'
In: J.B. Gewald; M. Hinfelaar; G. Macola: 'One Zambia, many histories : towards a history of post-colonial Zambia', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2008.
'From the Old Location to Bishops Hill: the politics of urban planning and landscape history in Windhoek, Namibia'
In: M. Bollig; O. Bubenzer: 'African Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches', New York: Springer, 2008.
'Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa : an introduction'
In: M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald: 'Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa', Leiden: Brill, 2007.
'Social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa'
In: P. Chabal; U. Engel; L.J. de Haan: 'African Alternatives', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2007.
'Coming Through Slaughter: The Herero of Namibia, 1904-1940'
In: A. Rao; M. Bollig; M. Böck: 'The Practice of War: Production, reproduction and communication of armed violence', New York / Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007.
'Colonisation, Genocide and Resurgence: The Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923'
In: J. Zimmerer; J. Zeller: 'Genocide in German South-West Africa: The Colonial War of 1904-1908 and its aftermath', Monmouth: Merlin Press, 2007.
'Nationalistische Diskurse einer Befreiungsbewegung an der Macht: Auf dem Wege zu einer patriotischen Geschichte?'
In: H. Melber: 'Genozid und Gedenken: Namibisch-Deutsche Geschichte und Gegenwart, Beiträge zur Politik mit Kolonialer Vergangenheit', Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2005.
'Das deutsche Kaiserreich und die Herero des südlichen Afrika: der Völkermord und die Entschädigungsfrage'
In: A. Jones: 'Völkermord, Kriegsverbrechen und der Westen', Berlin: Parthas Verlag GmbH, 2005.
'Genozid, Herero-Identität(en) und die Befreiungsbewegung an der Macht'
In: H. Melber: 'Genozid und Gedenken : Namibisch-deutsche Geschichte und Gegenwart', Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel, 2005.
'Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture : an introduction'
In: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald: 'Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2004.
Full text
'Imperial Germany and the Herero of Southern Africa : genocide and the quest of recompense'
In: A. Jones: 'Genocide, war crimes and the West : history and complicity', London: Zed Books, 2004.
Full text
'Ovita ovia Zürn - "Zürn's Krieg"'
In: Lvon Förster; D. Henrichsen; M. Bollig: 'Namibia-Deutschland : eine geteilte Geschichte : Widerstand, Gewalt, Erinnerung', Köln: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, 2004.
Full text
'The Herero and Nama Genocides, 1904 - 1908'
In: D.L. Shelton: 'Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity', New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004.
'Global media and violence in Africa: The case of Somalia'
In: W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald: 'Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture', Leiden: Bril, 2004.
Full text
'Herero genocide in the twentieth century: politics and memory'
In: J. Abbink; M.E. de Bruijn; K. van Walraven: 'Rethinking resistance : revolt and violence in African history', Leiden [etc.]: Brill, 2003.
Full text
'The Herero genocide: German unity, settlers, soldiers, and ideas'
In: M. Bechhaus-Gerst; R. Klein-Arendt: 'Die (koloniale) Begegnung : AfrikanerInnen in Deutschland (1880-1945), Deutsche in Afrika (1880-1918)', Frankfurt am Main [etc.]: Peter Lang, 2003.
Full text
'Kolonisierung, Völkermord und Wiederkehr : die Herero von Namibia 1890-1923'
In: J. Zimmerer; J. Zeller: 'Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika : der Kolonialkrieg (1904-1908) in Namibia und seine Folgen', Berlin: Links Verlag, 2003.
'Die Beerdigung von Samuel Maharero und die Reorganisation der Herero'
In: J. Zimmerer; J. Zeller: 'Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika : der Kolonialkrieg (1904-1908) in Namibia und seine Folgen', Berlin: Links Verlag, 2003.
'A Teutonic ethnologist in the Windhoek district: rethinking the anthropology of Guenther Wagner'
In: D. LeBeau; R.J. Gordon: 'Challenges for anthropology in the 'African Renaissance' : a Southern African contribution', Windhoek: University of Namibia Press, 2002.
Full text
'Diluting drinks and deepening discontent : colonial liquor controls and public resistance in Windhoek, Namibia'
In: D.F. Bryceson: 'Alcohol in Africa : mixing business, pleasure, and politics', Portsmouth: NH : Heinemann, 2002.
Full text
'People, cattle and land-transformations of pastoral society : an introduction'
In: M. Bollig; J.B. Gewald: 'People, cattle and land : transformations of a pastoral society in southwestern Africa', Köln: Köppe, 2000.
Full text
'Colonization, genocide and resurgence: the Herero of Namibia 1890-1933'
In: M. Bollig; J.B. Gewald: 'People, cattle and land : transformations of a pastoral society in southwestern Africa', Köln: Köppe, 2000.
Full text
'Herero and missionaries: the making of historical sources in the 1920s'
In: W.J.G. Möhlig: 'Frühe Kolonialgeschichte Namibias 1880-1930', Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2000.
'Herero annual parades: commemorating to create'
In: H. Behrend; T. Geider: 'Afrikaner schreiben zurück : Texte und Bilder afrikanischer Ethnographen', Köln: Köppe, 1998.
Full text
'Mirror images? photographs of Herero commemorations in the 1920s and 1930s'
In: W. Hartmann; P. Hayes; J. Silvester: 'The colonising camera: photographs in the making of Namibian history', Cape Town [etc.]: University of Cape Town Press, 1998.
'Untapped sources: slave exports from southern and central Namibia up to the mid-nineteenth century'
In: C. Hamilton: 'The Mfecane Aftermath', Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 1995.
Full text
'History in the making: commemorations of the dead and Herero identity in the 20th century'
In: Jvan Kle: 'Proceedings', Utrecht: Ceres, 1994.
Transforming innovations in Africa: explorative studies on appropriation in African societies
J.B. Gewald; A.H.M. Leliveld; I. Pesa (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics 11, 2012.
Living the end of empire: politics and society in late colonial Zambia
J.B. Gewald; M. Hinfelaar; G. Macola (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum series 21, 2011.
Full text
The speed of change : motor vehicles and people in Africa, 1890-2000
J.B. Gewald; S. Luning; K. van Walraven (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum series 13, 2009.
Full text
One Zambia, many histories : towards a history of post-colonial Zambia
J.B. Gewald; M. Hinfelaar; G. Macola (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum series 12, 2008.
Full text
Strength beyond structure : social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa
M.E. de Bruijn; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald (editors)
Leiden: Brill, African dynamics 6, 2007.
Full text
Situating globality : African agency in the appropriation of global culture
W.M.J. van Binsbergen; R.A. van Dijk; J.B. Gewald (editors)
Leiden [etc.]: Brill, African dynamics 3, 2004.
Full text
People, cattle and land : transformations of a pastoral society in southwestern Africa
J.B. Gewald; M. Bollig (editors)
Köln: Köppe, History, cultural traditions and innovations in Southern Africa ; 13 2000.
'Die Spanische Grippe in Afrika: Einige Anmerkungen zu Quellenlage und zukünftiger Forschung'
in: Periplus: Jahrbuch für Außereuropäische Geschichte, pp. 152 - 174, 2011.
'On becoming a chief in the Kaokoveld, colonial Namibia, 1916 -25'
in: Journal of African History, vol. 52, pp. 23 - 42, 2011.
Full text
'Remote but in contact with history and the world'
in: PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, May 4 2010, vol. 107, no. 18, 2010.
Full text
'Mbadamassi of Lagos: a soldier for King and Kaiser, and a deportee to German South West Africa'
in: African Diaspora, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 103 - 124, 2009.
'Colonial warfare : Hehe and World War One, the wars besides Maji Maji in south-western Tanzania'
in: African Historical Review, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 1 - 27, 2008.
'More than Red Rubber and figures alone : a critical appraisal of the Memory of the Congo exhibition at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium'
in: The international journal of African historical studies, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 471 - 486, 2006.
'Who Killed Clemens Kapuuo?'
in: Journal of Southern African studies, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 559 - 576, 2004.
Full text
'Ontwikkelingshulp faalt door onkunde'
in: NRC Handelsblad, no. 6 October, 2004.
'Culture de la violence, destruction des normes et déshumanisation en Afrique'
in: Marchés tropicaux et méditerranéens, vol. 58, no. 3000, pp. 977 - 987, 2003.
Full text
'Near death in the streets of Karibib: famine, migrant labour and the coming of Ovambo to central Namibia'
in: The journal of African history, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 211 - 239, 2003.
Full text
'El Negro, El Niño, Witchcraft and the absence of rain in Botswana'
in: Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 37 - 51, 2002.
Full text
'Flags, funerals and fanfares: Herero and missionary contestations of the acceptable, 1900-1940'
in: Journal of African cultural studies, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 105 - 117, 2002.
Full text
'"I was afraid of Samuel, therefore I came to Sekgoma": Herero refugees and patronage politics in Ngamiland, Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1890-1914'
in: The journal of African history, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 211 - 234, 2002.
Full text
'Missionaries, Hereros, and motorcars: mobility and the impact of motor vehicles in Namibia before 1940'
in: The international journal of African historical studies, vol. 35, no. 2/3, pp. 257 - 285, 2002.
Full text
'El Negro, el Niño, witchcraft and the absence of rain in Botswana'
in: African affairs : the journal of the Royal African Society, vol. 100, no. 401, pp. 555 - 580, 2001.
Full text
'Making tribes: social engineering in the Western Province of British administered Eritrea 1941-52'
in: Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 1, no. 2, 2000.
Full text
'Mbadamassi of Lagos: a Nigerian soldier for King and Kaiser, and a deportee to German South West Africa'
in: Newsletter Namibia Scientific Society, vol. 41, no. 1-3, pp. 3 - 21, 2000.
'Religion, Labour and Resistance in Namibia - II - The Road of the Man Called Love and the Sack of Sero: The Herero-German War and the Export of Herero Labour to the South African Rand'
in: The journal of African history, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 21 - 40, 1999.
Full text
'The issue of forced labour in the 'Onjembo' : German South West Africa 1904-1908'
in: Itinerario : bulletin of the Leyden Centre for the History of European Expansion, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 97 - 104, 1995.
Full text
'The great General of the Kaiser'
in: Botswana notes and records, vol. 26, pp. 67 - 76, 1994.
Full text
'Review of "Mineworkers in Zambia: labour and political change in post-colonial Africa" by M. Larmer'
International Review of Social History, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 524 - 527, 2009.
''Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth Century East Africa' written by Stephen J. Rockel'
International Review of Social History, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 145 - 147, 2008.
''Mining and the Colonial State in Northern Rhodesia, c. 1930-64' written by L.J. Butler'
Journal of African History, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 489 - 491, 2008.
''No insignificant part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War' written by Timothy J. Stapleton'
Journal of Military History, vol. 73, no. 1, pp. 296 - 297, 2008.
'Review of E. Ndeshi Namhila, Kaxumba kaNdola: Man and myth: the biography of a barefoot soldier'
African affairs, vol. 105, no. 420, pp. 481 - 483, 2006.
'Review of L. Rakner, Political and economic liberalisation in Zambia 1991-2001'
Journal of African History, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 353 - 355, 2006.
'Review of Kuzmierz, K. : Documents on South Africa: The Lienemann Collection (1970-1992)'
The journal of African history, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 186 - 187, 2005.
Full text
'Review of Miescher, G. and Henrichsen, D. : African posters: a catalogue of the poster collection in the Basler Afrika bibliographien'
The journal of African history, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 377 - 377, 2005.
Full text
'Review of Zimmerer, J. : Deutsche Herrschaft über Afrikaner: Staatlicher Machtanspruch und Wirklichkeit im kolonialen Namibia (German governance of Africans: stately claims to power, and reality in colonial Namibia)'
The journal of African history, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 173 - 175, 2005.
Full text
'Review of Walther, D.J. : Creating Germans abroad: cultural policies and national identity in Namibia'
International History Review, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 163 - 164, 2004.
'Review of Hellberg, C.-J. : Mission colonialism and liberation: the Lutheran Church in Namibia 1840-1966'
Journal of African History, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 533 - 536, 2003.
Full text
'Review of Oermann, N.O. : Mission, church and state relations in South West Africa under German rule (1884-1915)'
Journal of African History, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 533 - 536, 2003.
Full text
'Review Alexander, J., McGregor, J.and Ranger, T. : Violence & memory: one hundred years in the "dark forests" of Matabeleland'
African studies review : the journal of the African Studies Association, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 122 - 125, 2002.
Full text
'Review of Hooper E. : The river: A journey back to the source of HIV and AIDS'
Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 268 - 269, 2001.
Full text
'Review of Tony Emmett,T. : Popular resistance and the roots of nationalism in Namibia, 1915-1966'
Journal of African History, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 157 - 158, 2001.
Full text
'Review of Negash,G. : A history of Tigrinya literature in Eritrea: The oral and the written 1890-1991'
African affairs : the journal of the Royal African Society, vol. 99, no. 397, pp. 670 - 671, 2000.
Full text
'Review of Werner, W. : No one will become rich: economy and society in the Herero Reserves in Namibia, 1915-1946'
The journal of African history, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 161 - 162, 2000.
Full text
'Review of Aas,N.; Sippel,H. : Koloniale Konflikte im Alltag: Eine rechtshistoriche Untersuchung der Auseinandersetxungen des Siedlers Heinrich Langkopp mit der Kolonialverwaltung in Deutsch-Ostafrika und dem Reichsentschadigungsamt'
The journal of African history, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 138 - 139, 1999.
Full text
'Review of Drechsler, H. : Südwestafrika unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft. Die großen Land- und Minengesellschaften, 1885-1914'
The international history review, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 928 - 930, 1997.
'Review of Vansina, J. : Paths in the rainsforests: toward a history of political tradition in equatorial Africa'
Leidschrift, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 123 - 131, 1994.
Full text
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 74, 2007.
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 75, 2007.
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 77, 2007.
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 60, 2005.
Leiden: African Studies Centre, ASC working paper 61, 2005.
Project status:
completed
Project status:
completed