The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8Eric Anderson Walker |
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
South African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
Tribal Divisions of the Bushmen | 23 |
Tribal Divisions | 29 |
Tribal Divisions | 35 |
Tribal Organisation | 41 |
Government and | 47 |
War against Sekukuni | 463 |
The GaikaGaleka War | 469 |
Outbreak of the Zulu War | 475 |
Agitation in the Transvaal | 481 |
CHAPTER XIX | 487 |
Fall of the Scanlen Government | 495 |
Krugers Policy of Isolation | 501 |
CHAPTER XX | 507 |
The Problem of the Nile | 59 |
Ptolemys Geography | 65 |
Arab Settlements in East Africa | 71 |
CHAPTER IV | 77 |
Results of the Voyage of Dias | 83 |
African Policy of King Manoel | 89 |
Penetration of Congo and Angola | 95 |
Search for Gold Mines | 101 |
The Dutch and the Portuguese Monopoly | 107 |
Report of Janszoon and Proot at the Cape | 113 |
Early Days of the Settlement | 119 |
Evolution of the Trekboer | 135 |
The Burghers Memorial | 141 |
EighteenthCentury Governors | 147 |
Policy of the Company | 153 |
Decline of the Company | 159 |
The Frontier Boer | 165 |
The French Invasion of Holland | 171 |
Craig and the Frontier Afrikanders | 177 |
Macartney and the Afrikanders | 183 |
The Cape in the Peace Negotiations | 189 |
The Second British Occupation | 195 |
The Cape and South America | 197 |
Caledon and the Frontier | 203 |
Cradock and the Law Courts | 209 |
Slachters Nek | 215 |
Assisted Emigration to the Cape | 221 |
The Currency Problem | 227 |
The Cape as a Clearing House | 233 |
Initial Hardships | 239 |
Dr John Philip and the London Missionary Society | 245 |
Philip and Governor Somerset | 251 |
Currency Difficulties | 257 |
Slavery at the Cape in the Eighteenth Century | 263 |
A Slave Code 183031 | 269 |
State of the Hottentots c 1800 | 277 |
The Missionary Societies | 283 |
Philips Researches in South Africa | 289 |
CHAPTER XIII | 295 |
The Chaka Wars | 301 |
Effects of LandHunger | 307 |
The Stockenstrom Treaties | 315 |
THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION IN SOUTH AFRICAN | 320 |
Social Causes of the Great Trek | 321 |
The Blood River Victory | 327 |
Governor Napier and Transorangia | 333 |
Sir Harry Smith and the Natalians | 339 |
The Warden Line | 345 |
The Orange River Sovereignty | 351 |
Shepstones Native Policy | 357 |
The Cape Legislative Council | 363 |
The AttorneyGenerals Draft Constitution | 369 |
The Constitution Ordinance 1852 | 375 |
Agitation for Removal of the Capital | 381 |
The Orange River Sovereignty | 387 |
Results of the Sand River and Bloemfontein Conventions 18524 | 393 |
The Native Policy of the South African Republic | 399 |
The Basuto War 1858 | 405 |
CHAPTER XVII | 429 |
Disputes over the Possession of the Diamond Diggings | 435 |
The Anomalous Constitution of Cape Colony | 441 |
Effects of the Diamond Discoveries | 451 |
The Earl of Carnarvon and Confederation | 457 |
Sir Hercules Robinson as High Commissioner | 512 |
British Annexation of Pondoland | 519 |
De Beers Consolidated Mines | 525 |
Concessionhunters in Matabeleland | 531 |
The Matabele War | 537 |
Effects of the Gold Discoveries | 543 |
The Transvaal and the Natives | 549 |
Political Disabilities of the Uitlanders | 555 |
Sir H Robinson and Rhodess Scheme | 561 |
Die Federale Raad | 567 |
Kruger and Chamberlain | 569 |
Kruger and the Press | 575 |
Milner and Rhodes | 581 |
The Question of Paramountcy | 587 |
The Bloemfontein Conference | 593 |
The Rival Armies | 599 |
The Second Phase of the War | 605 |
The Treaty of Vereeniging | 611 |
Repatriation of the Civil Population | 617 |
Retirement of Lord Milner | 623 |
Progress of Southern Rhodesia | 629 |
The Railway Question | 635 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 641 |
Union Finance | 647 |
Industrial Unrest | 653 |
Natives Land Act 1913 | 659 |
The Draft Constitution 1921 | 667 |
CHAPTER XXV | 676 |
Control of the Senate | 683 |
The Provinces | 689 |
The Treaties of Protectorate | 695 |
Surrender of the last of the Rebels | 701 |
Agricultural Settlement | 707 |
Occupation of Lüderitzbucht | 713 |
Plans for the Campaign in SouthWest Africa | 719 |
The British gain the Initiative | 725 |
War Measures in the Union | 731 |
The Importance of South Africa in the Empire | 737 |
CHAPTER XXIX | 759 |
Road Building | 765 |
Railway Construction | 779 |
Customs Tariffs | 785 |
Goldmining and Labour Difficulties | 791 |
Development in Agriculture | 797 |
Land Settlement | 799 |
Retrospect | 805 |
Pressure of Population on Land | 811 |
The Eastern Frontier and Kaffraria | 817 |
Chieftainship | 823 |
CHAPTER XXXI | 829 |
The Charters of Justice | 835 |
The Law of Persons | 841 |
Influence of Scottish Ministers | 847 |
Social Conditions | 853 |
Rivalry of Afrikaans and High Dutch | 859 |
Afrikaans Literature | 865 |
Art in South Africa | 871 |
The Natal Constitution 1856 390 | 889 |
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OTHER WORKS | 914 |
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