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Title: | Notes on the Arms Trade and Government Policy in Southern Africa between 1870-1890 |
Author: | Miers, Suzanne |
Year: | 1971 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 12 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 571-577 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | arms trade history 1800-1899 Military, Defense and Arms History and Exploration colonialism |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/181014 |
Abstract: | These (incomplete) notes have been collected in the course of other research and only point out some of the factors governing official policy towards the arms traffic in southern Africa (the Boer republics and the British South African colonies) in the years before the Brussels Act of 1890 came into force. The whole history of the arms traffic in South Africa between 1870 and 1890 indicates that, no matter what regulations existed, arms would continue to be sold beyond the frontiers of the colonies if the commercial and political advantages seemed to outweigh the immediate dangers. The trade flourished, because it was impossible to end it without the loyal co-operation of all the powers of Southern Africa. Notes. |