Namibia's red line : the history of a veterinary and settlement border / Giorgio Miescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miescher, Giorgio.

Series:

Palgrave series in African borderlands studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quarantine, Veterinary--Namibia.

Quarantine, Veterinary.

Veterinary public health--Political aspects--Namibia.

Veterinary public health.

Colonization.

Boundaries.

Namibia--Boundaries.

Namibia.

Namibia--Colonization.

Namibia--History--1884-1915.

History.

Namibia--History--1915-1946.

Namibia--History--1946-1990.

Physical Description:

xii, 327 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

Namibia's Red Line opens a fascinating window into a nation's history by tracing the establishment of an internal border within it. Based on archival sources and oral histories, it recounts the process of border constitution in Namibia from the German military's construction of a temporary veterinary defense line against Rinderpest in the late nineteenth century to the erection of a two-meter-high fence by the South African colonial government sixty years later. The nearly 800-mile-long fence has divided northern and central Namibia up to today. Giorgio Miescher reveals the Red Line's history to be a gradual process aimed at segregating stock and people and constructing dichotomies between modern and traditional, healthy and sick, European and African. As a device of the South African empire, the border functioned conceptually and ideologically as a "barbarian border" drawn against the dangers of inner African, physically marking the limits of "white" South Africa. Book jacket.

Contents:

The rinderpest cordon of 1896-1897

The police zone boundary and "restricted areas," 1905-1915

The invention of the red line, 1915-1928

The red line as a veterinary and settlement border, 1928-1945

The red line: from zone to fence, 1945-1960s

In search of the red line.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-319) and index.

"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."

ISBN:

9780230337480

0230337481

OCLC:

755699199