With the Boers in the Transvaal and Orange Free State in 1880-81 (Africana reprint library) by Newman, Charles L. Norris
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With the Boers in the Transvaal and Orange Free State in 1880-81 (Africana reprint library) by Newman, Charles L. Norris
Hardcover, ISBN 9780949973184
Publisher: Africana Book Society, 1976
Facsimile reproduction of the 1882 edition with a new Foreword, Illustrations and Index
Used - Very Good+. Book and beautiful DJ protected with a Cellophane cover.
xvii, 384p. Frontispiece portrait of General Piet Joubert, ills and 3 fold-out maps.
An account of the Boer War of 1880-1, together with some preliminary chapters referring to the history of the South African Colonies and Republics up to this period. The author expresses the hope that the publication of the volume will conduce to the development of a more liberal feeling towards our future colonists, the Boers, the early pioneers of civilisation, colonisation, and European dominion in South Africa. He considered that the causes of the war were due partially to the peculiarities and untractableness of the Boers themselves; but, principally, to the undoubted mismanagement and wilful blindness of the Imperial authorities both at home and out here, as evidenced by the various and contradictory policies pursued by successive governors.
