No abstract or introduction provided by author. The following is taken from the Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: The development of a theoretical and empirical context; Chapter 2: The people and their environment; Chapter 3: Namaland in the period 1800-1835; Chapter 4: Aspects of the political, social and economic organisation of Orlam groups; Chapter 5: The emergence of the kommando in Nama groups, 1835-1850; Chapter 6: The position of missionaries in kommando groups; Chapter 7: The cancellation of Nama/Orlam differences and the emergence of alternative patterns of political conflict in Namaland, 1842-1859; Chapter 8: Trade and impoverishment in Namaland; Chapter 9: The traders' and missionaries' 'War of liberation'