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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781985137264
- Book Title
- Boer War: the History and Legacy of the Conflict That Solidified British Rule in South Africa
- Publisher
- CreateSpace
- Item Length
- 11 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.2 in
- Features
- Large Type
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Africa / South / Republic of South Africa
- Item Weight
- 10.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 8.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 92 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
CreateSpace
ISBN-10
1985137267
ISBN-13
9781985137264
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242891655
Product Key Features
Book Title
Boer War: the History and Legacy of the Conflict That Solidified British Rule in South Africa
Number of Pages
92 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Africa / South / Republic of South Africa
Features
Large Type
Genre
History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.2 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
11 in
Item Width
8.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
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The
Edition Description
Large Type / large print edition
Synopsis
*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "The Boers were hostile toward indigenous African peoples, with whom they fought frequent range wars, and toward the government of the Cape, which was attempting to control Boer movements and commerce. They overtly compared their way of life to that of the Israel patriarchs of the Bible, developing independent patriarchal communities based upon a mobile pastoralist economy. Staunch Calvinists, they saw themselves as the children of God in the wilderness, a Christian elect divinely ordained to rule the land and the backward natives therein. By the end of the 18th century the cultural links between the Boers and their urban counterparts were diminishing, although both groups continued to speak a type of Flemish." - Encyclopaedia Britannica The Boer War was the defining conflict of South African history and one of the most important conflicts in the history of the British Empire. Naturally, complicated geopolitics underscored it. The European history of South Africa began with the 1652 arrival of a small Dutch flotilla in Table Bay, at the southern extremity of the African continent, which made landfall with a view to establishing a victualing station to service passing Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) ships. The Dutch at that point largely dominated the East Indian Trade, and it was their establishment of the settlement of Kaapstad, or Cape Town, that set in motion the lengthy and often turbulent history of South Africa. For over a century, the Cape remained a Dutch East India Company settlement, and in the interests of limiting expenses, strict parameters were established to avoid the development of a colony. As religious intolerance in Europe drove a steady trickle of outward emigration, however, Dutch settlers began to informally expand beyond the Cape, settling the sparsely inhabited hinterland to the north and east of Cape Town. In doing so, they fell increasingly outside the administrative scope of the Company, and they developed an individualistic worldview, characterized by self-dependence and self-reliance. They were also bonded as a society by a rigorous and literal interpretation of the Old Testament. In their wake, towards the end of the 17th century, followed a wave of French Huguenot immigrants, fleeing a renewal of anti-Protestantism in Europe. They were integrated over the succeeding generations, creating a hybridized language and culture that emerged in due course as the Cape Dutch, The Afrikaner or the Boer. The Napoleonic Wars radically altered the old, established European power dynamics, and in 1795, the British, now emerging as the globe's naval superpower, assumed control of the Cape as part of the spoils of war. In doing so, they recognized the enormous strategic value of the Cape as global shipping routes were developing and expanding. Possession passed back and forth once or twice, but more or less from that point onwards, the British established their presence at the Cape, which they held until the unification of South Africa in 1910. The Boer War: The History and Legacy of the Conflict that Solidified British Rule in South Africa looks at the controversial fighting and the manner in which it affected the 20th century. Along with pictures and a bibliography, you will learn about the Boer War like never before.
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