Kulturgeographische Wandlungen in der Farmzone Südwestafrikas / von Jürgen Bähr

This is the most thorough general study of the economics of settler farming to have been completed in the postwar period. It is partly based on field research, which involved extensive contacts with white farmers and government officials. It is also informed by a comprehensive reading of theses, books and articles, German as well as South African and Namibian. It is primarily a descriptive work of economic geography, which, because of the author's concern with structural change, is also an economic history of commercial farming since the beginning of the colonial period. Spatial patterns and infrastructural expansion are prominently treated, in particular land settlement, fixed investment and urban servicing centres. Of great value is the wide range of economic and social data presented in tables and graphs, some of which cover long time-runs. There is also a large number of useful maps, town outlines, and plans of farm settlement and land-use. The author has summarized his analysis in several published articles, notably " Strukturwandel der Farmwirtschaft in Südwestafrika", Zeitschrift für Ausländische Landwirtschaft, 9, 1970: p. 147-59, and " Probleme der Wirtschafts-und Sozialstruktur in der Farmzone Südwestafrikas", Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 13, no. 5, 1969: p. 129-39. (Eriksen/ Moorsom 1989)

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