The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8

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Eric Anderson Walker
CUP Archive, 1963 - Canada - 17 pages
 

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
B IN SOUTH Africa by A C G LLOYD M A Librarian of the South
908
OTHER WORKS
914
CHAPTER III
928
The Free Burghers and the Hottentots
932
797
967

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