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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.
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