The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell Macmillan, 1929 - Great Britain |
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Boers who already found variable quit - rents for farms of variable sizes irksome , survey expensive and the issue of title - deeds slow and uncertain , could not support such a radical change radical change in land tenure in the midst ...
Boers who already found variable quit - rents for farms of variable sizes irksome , survey expensive and the issue of title - deeds slow and uncertain , could not support such a radical change radical change in land tenure in the midst ...
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Many of them were already accustomed to frequent change of settlement . The census figures are admittedly defective , but if we take them as a basis and allow for severe loss of life owing to epidemics of measles and smallpox in 1839 ...
Many of them were already accustomed to frequent change of settlement . The census figures are admittedly defective , but if we take them as a basis and allow for severe loss of life owing to epidemics of measles and smallpox in 1839 ...
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Little time was lost in starting the gold - mining industry again after the war , for the mining population was flocking back to the Rand before the end of 1901. The output for 1902 already reached nearly half the figure for 1898 ...
Little time was lost in starting the gold - mining industry again after the war , for the mining population was flocking back to the Rand before the end of 1901. The output for 1902 already reached nearly half the figure for 1898 ...
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Smutss offer to S Rhodesia 1921 | 4 |
6 CIVIL ADMINISTRATION AND ECONOMIC | 6 |
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