| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4 | The History Cooperative

Henning Melber, editor. Genozid und Gedenken: Namibisch-deutsche Geschichte und Gegenwart. Frankfurt, Germany: Brandes and Apsel Verlag. 2005. Pp. 208. €16.90.
In 1904, the first genocide of the twentieth century was perpetrated by German colonial troops against the indigenous populations of German Southwest Africa (present-day Namibia). This collection of essays is one of the newest contributions to a growing, significant, and necessary field of study. However, as the current volume demonstrates, our understanding of the phenomenon is far from complete, and debates over its meaning and significance continue.	1
In this particular book, the authors recognize that they are examining this historical phenomenon from a contemporary European perspective. But, it is precisely through this lens that they desire "to process the past in the present of the future" (p. 10). According to editor Henning Melber, such an undertaking will enable them "to come to grips with a topic that still 100 years after the historical events has more to do with us than we were aware of" (p. 10).	. . .

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