464 Pages
by
Routledge
464 Pages
by
Routledge
464 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1972, this book covers South African history from the earliest times up to 1968. After portraying the land itself, its people and their migrations, it describes what early travellers found and the arrival of the first white settlers in 1652 under the aegis of the Dutch East India Company. The arrival of the British in 1795, the period of expansion, Wars of Dispossession,... Read more
Biography
Freda Troup was a South African author and anti-Apartheid activist.
‘…one of the more impressive features of the book is the data assembled on the economic and social condition of the majority of South Africans in their past.’ Colin Bundy, Journal of African History, Vol 15, No. 2.
