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\*Includes pictures \*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading \*Includes a table of contents “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 Afr

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Author

Charles River Charles River Editors

Publisher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781985137257

Category

history

Subjects

History, African History, Humanities

Rating

3.9 / 5 (97 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14