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Coles A history of South Africa, from the earliest days to union at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
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From the first coastal landings to the Union of 1910, South Africa's past moves with the force of lived drama. A country forged in contest. William Charles Scully shapes a south African history book with the sweep of classic African history and the steadiness of an African history reference. Spanning pre-1910 South Africa, he follows communities, frontiers, and ideas as they collide and converge, from early settlement and Cape Colony history to the shifting realities of British and Dutch rule. This colonial history nonfiction clarifies the making of modern Southern Africa - languages, laws, land, and power, and the negotiations that followed. Republished by Alpha Editions in a modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Scully writes at the hinge-point when the British Empire in Africa sought consolidation and the region's own polities pressed for autonomy; his account of Great Trek history, the rise of the republics, and Boer War history leads directly to the Union of South Africa, explaining the pressures that shaped a new state. Read it as a South Africa textbook for context behind headlines, or as an African history reference to consult; either way, it offers a historically significant vantage on how empire, commerce, faith, and migration altered the Cape and the interior. For casual readers it is gripping and comprehensible; for classic-literature collectors it is a landmark document of its era, brought back into reach.
From the first coastal landings to the Union of 1910, South Africa's past moves with the force of lived drama. A country forged in contest. William Charles Scully shapes a south African history book with the sweep of classic African history and the steadiness of an African history reference. Spanning pre-1910 South Africa, he follows communities, frontiers, and ideas as they collide and converge, from early settlement and Cape Colony history to the shifting realities of British and Dutch rule. This colonial history nonfiction clarifies the making of modern Southern Africa - languages, laws, land, and power, and the negotiations that followed. Republished by Alpha Editions in a modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Scully writes at the hinge-point when the British Empire in Africa sought consolidation and the region's own polities pressed for autonomy; his account of Great Trek history, the rise of the republics, and Boer War history leads directly to the Union of South Africa, explaining the pressures that shaped a new state. Read it as a South Africa textbook for context behind headlines, or as an African history reference to consult; either way, it offers a historically significant vantage on how empire, commerce, faith, and migration altered the Cape and the interior. For casual readers it is gripping and comprehensible; for classic-literature collectors it is a landmark document of its era, brought back into reach.
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