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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 nineteenth...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Colección: | Palgrave series in African borderlands studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Notas: | "This book is adapted from the German manuscript 'Die Rote Linie. Eine Geschichte der Veterinär- und Siedlungsgrenze in Namibia (1890er-1960er Jahre), ' completed in 2009 and published in 2012 by the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in Switzerland." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781137118318 1137118318 9780230337480 0230337481 9781280880773 1280880775 |