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Transvaal-Batswana kiezen voor de moderne wereld : een vergelijkende studie van socio-culturele verandering in een zgn. Bantoestan als antwoord op het aanbod van de Boeren, de zending en de industriële stad.
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ISBN: 9029301066 Year: 1972 Publisher: Baarn Wereldvenster


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The politics of a South African frontier : the Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the missionaries, 1780-1840
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ISBN: 3905758555 9783905758559 3905758148 9783905758146 Year: 2010 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien,

Rules and processes : the cultural logic of dispute in an African context
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ISBN: 0226114244 9780226114255 0226114252 Year: 1981 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago,

The Dialectics of modernity on a South African frontier
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ISBN: 0226114422 0226114414 0226114430 0226114449 9780226114422 9780226114446 9780226114439 9780226114415 Year: 1997 Publisher: Chicago : Chicago University Press,


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Land, chiefs, mining : South Africa's North West Province since 1840
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ISBN: 1868149927 186814772X 1868147711 Year: 2014 Publisher: Johannesburg : Wits University Press,

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Land, Chiefs, Mining explores aspects of the experience of the Batswana in the thornveld and bushveld regions of the North-West Province, shedding light on defi ning issues, moments and individuals in this lesser known region of South Africa. Some of the focuses are: an important Tswana kgosi (chief ), Moiloa II of the Bahurutshe; responses to and participation in the South African War and its aftermath, 1899-1907; land acquisition; economic and political conditions in the reserves; resistance to Mangope's Bophuthatswana; the impact of game parks and the Sun City resort; rural resistance and the liberation struggle; and African reaction to the platinum mining revolution. Written in a direct and accessible style, and illustrated with photographs and maps, the book provides an understanding, for a general reader ship, of the region and its recent history. At the same time it opens up avenues for further research. The authors, Andrew Manson and Bernard Mbenga, both based at North-West University, Mahikeng Campus, have, for some thirty years, been studying and writing on the region's past.


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A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793 : containing a general view of the valuable productions and the political importance of this flourishing kingdom
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ISBN: 1316163326 1108082130 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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A staunch supporter of exploration, Sir John Barrow (1764-1848) backed expeditions to Africa, Australia, the Arctic and the Antarctic during his forty-year tenure as Second Secretary to the Admiralty. In his early career, he served as an aide to the diplomat Lord Macartney, joining him on his 1792-4 embassy to China, and during his later governorship of the Cape of Good Hope. Barrow was a prolific author, setting new standards of detail and accuracy for travel writing. In this 1806 account, he recounts the embassy's journey to Cochinchina (now Vietnam) via Brazil and Java. In one of the first illustrated accounts of the country in English, Barrow applies his boundless curiosity and elegant style to history, politics, local customs, and the flora and fauna. His autobiography and several other volumes of his travel writing are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

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