The Revolt of the Hereros

The Revolt of the Hereros by Jon M. Bridgman reconstructs the largely forgotten war fought from 1904 to 1907, when the Herero and later the Nama (Hottentots) rose against German colonial rule in South West Africa. Though often relegated to a footnote in histories of imperial Germany, the revolt was the defining historical event for the Herero people, costing more lives than many better-remembered nineteenth-century wars. Bridgman situates the conflict within the broader patterns of African ...