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Namibia's red linethe history of a veterinary and settlement border /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Namibia's red lineGiorgio Miescher.
Reminder of title:	the history of a veterinary and settlement border /
Author:	Miescher, Giorgio.
Published:	New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan,2012.
Description:	1 online resource.
Notes:	"This book is adapted from the German manuscript 'Die Rote Linie. Eine Geschichte der Veterin�ar- und Siedlungsgrenze in Namibia (1890er-1960er Jahre),' completed in 2009 and published in 2012 by the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in Switzerland."
Subject:	Quarantine, VeterinaryNamibia.
Subject:	NamibiaBoundaries.
Online resource:	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137118318
ISBN:	9781137118318 (electronic bk.)

Namibia's red linethe history of a veterinary and settlement border /
Miescher, Giorgio.

Namibia's red linethe history of a veterinary and settlement border /[electronic resource] :Giorgio Miescher. - New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource. - Palgrave series in African borderlands studies. - Palgrave series in African borderlands studies..

"This book is adapted from the German manuscript 'Die Rote Linie. Eine Geschichte der Veterin�ar- und Siedlungsgrenze in Namibia (1890er-1960er Jahre),' completed in 2009 and published in 2012 by the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in Switzerland."

The history of the red line as a contribution to Namibian historiography -- Historiography and the struggle for Namibian independence -- Studies on region and ethnicity -- New trends in historiography -- A history of the red line as a history of borders -- Territorial boundary and frontiers -- The imperial "barbarian border".

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

ISBN: 9781137118318 (electronic bk.)

Source: 612880Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

583925
Quarantine, Veterinary
--Namibia.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

583923
Namibia
--Boundaries.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DT1603 / .M54 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 968.8102

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