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Namibia's Red Line

The History of a Veterinary and Settlement Border

Namibia's Red Line( )
Author: Miescher, G.
Series title:Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies
ISBN:978-1-137-11831-8
Publication Date:Jun 2012
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $105.00
Book Description:

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...
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Pages:327



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