Format:
352 S.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780230337480
Series Statement:
Palgrave series in African borderlands studies
Content:
Based on archival sources and oral history, this book reconstructs a border-building process in Namibia that spanned more than sixty years. The process commenced with the establishment of a temporary veterinary defence line against rinderpest by the German colonial authorities in the late nineteenth century and ended with the construction of a continuous two-metre-high fence by the South African colonial government sixty years later. This 1250-kilometre fence divides northern from central Namibia even today. The book combines a macro and a micro-perspective and differentiates between cartogr
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; List of Maps; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Rinderpest Cordon of 1896-1897; 2 The Police Zone Boundary and "Restricted Areas," 1905-1915; 3 The Invention of the Red Line, 1915-1928; 4 The Red Line as a Veterinary and Settlement Border, 1928-1945; 5 The Red Line-From Zone to Fence, 1945-1960s; 6 In Search of the Red Line; Epilogue; Appendix: Brief Chronology of the Police Zone Border, Key Dates, and Proclamations; Notes; Sources and Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137118318
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230337480
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Namibia's Red Line : The History of a Veterinary and Settlement Border
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Author information:
Miescher, Giorgio 1958-
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