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."
Summary
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
Notes
"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."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319) and index
