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- ↑ Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts, John S. Lowry, p.64
- 1 2 3 Pedersen, Susan (2015). The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire. Oxford University Press. pp. 114–115. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199570485.001.0001/acprof-9780199570485. ISBN 978-0-19-957048-5.
- ↑ Crawford, Neta (2002). "6 - Sacred Trust". Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization and Humanitarian Intervention. Cambridge University Press.
Further reading
- Freislich, Richard (1964). The Last Tribal War. A History Of The Bondelswart Uprising. Struik.
- John S. Lowry, Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts, 2015.
- Brian Wood, Namibia 1884-1984: Readings on Namibia's History and Society, Namibia Support Committee, United Nations Institute for Namibia, 1988
- Alfred T. Moleah, Namibia, the Struggle for Liberation, 1983
- Dean McCleland, John Dunn: Part 1 – Background to the Bondelswarts People & the SAC
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