The History of the Great Boer Trek: And the Origin of the South African Republics (Classic Reprint)

The History of the Great Boer Trek: And the Origin of the South African Republics (Classic Reprint)
Author: Henry Cloete
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2018-04-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780331595291

Excerpt from The History of the Great Boer Trek: And the Origin of the South African Republics When this country took over the Cape Colony, the farmers in the rural districts had been demoralised by the habit of receiving grants of blocks of from ten to thirty square miles for single farms. Civilisation and even government loses its hold upon a population so scattered. The farmers had ceased to cultivate according to civilised methods, and had relapsed into a purely pastoral and even nomadic life. The territory had become too small for this wasteful colonisation, and the Boers habitually encroached, both temporarily and permanently, upon the lands of the sur rounding native tribes. These tribes not um naturally made reprisals, especially as the treat ment accorded to them was uniformly severe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Great Trek

The Great Trek
Author: Oliver Ransford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1974
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780351179495

The Great Treks

The Great Treks
Author: Norman Etherington
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2014-06-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317883136

The mass migration of the Boer farmers from Cape Colony to escape British domination in 1835-36 - the Great Trek - has always been a potent icon of Africaaner nationalism and identity. For African nationalists, the Mfecane - the vast movement of the Black populations in the interior following the emergence of a new Zulu kingdom as a major military force in the early 19th century - offers an equally powerful symbol of the making of a nation. With their parallel visions of populations on the move to establish new states, these two stories became part of divided South Africa’s separate mythologies, treated as unconnected events taking place in separate universes. For the first time, in this groundbreaking book, accounts of both migrations are brought together and examined. In uniting these separate visions of African and Afrikaaner history, Norman Etherington provides a fascinating picture of a major turning point in South African history, and points the way for future work on the period.

The History of the Great Boer Trek and the Origin of the South African Republics

The History of the Great Boer Trek and the Origin of the South African Republics
Author: Edited By William Brodrick Cloet Cloete
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2019-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780353957336

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The History of the Great Boer Trek

The History of the Great Boer Trek
Author: Henry Cloete
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781290903622

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Diamonds, Gold, and War

Diamonds, Gold, and War
Author: Martin Meredith
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Total Pages: 593
Release: 2008-09-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1586486772

Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land. The result was the costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating war that Britain had waged in nearly a century, and the devastation of the Boer republics. The New Yorker calls this magisterial account of those years “[an] astute history.… Meredith expertly shows how the exigencies of the diamond (and then gold) rush laid the foundation for apartheid.”