Bibliograph

The last commando, the story of the Transvaal Boers - expansion, curtailment, demise and myth, Brian H. Jones

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The last commando, the story of the Transvaal Boers - expansion, curtailment, demise and myth, Brian H. Jones

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The last commando

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Brian H. Jones

Sub title

the story of the Transvaal Boers - expansion, curtailment, demise and myth

Summary

Cruel, backward, isolationist, and fanatically religious-or independent, resourceful, principled, and courageous? This book is, about the Boers of the Transvaal; it is about how, they were formed, their relentless territorial, expansion, at the expense of indigenous groups in both, the Cape Colony and the Transvaal, their struggle for distinctiveness and independence against Imperial and African pressures, the state that they, carved out for themselves, and their abject, defeat in the Anglo-Boer War. It is also, about how the experiences and world view of the Transvaal Boer,s shaped the myth and laid the platform for 'Boerdom resurgent' (or the Afrikaner ascent) in apartheid South Africa

Target audience

adult

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