Namibia's Red Line : The History of a Veterinary and Settlement Border.

Namibia's Red Line : The History of a Veterinary and Settlement 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 nineteent...

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Author / Creator: Miescher, G.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012.
Series:Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies
Subjects:
Quarantine, Veterinary > Namibia.
Veterinary public health > Political aspects > Namibia.
Namibia > Boundaries.
Namibia > Colonization.
Namibia > History > 1884-1915.
Namibia > History > 1915-1946.
Namibia > History > 1946-1990.
Electronic books.
Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Namibia's Red Line
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The Rinderpest Cordon of 1896-1897
  • Chapter 2 The Police Zone Boundary and "Restricted Areas," 1905-1915
  • Chapter 3 The Invention of the Red Line, 1915-1928
  • Chapter 4 The Red Line as a Veterinary and Settlement Border, 1928-1945
  • Chapter 5 The Red Line-From Zone to Fence, 1945-1960s
  • Chapter 6 In Search of the Red Line
  • Chapter 7 Epilogue
  • APPENDIX
  • Notes
  • Sources and Bibliography
  • Index.

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