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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The lands of the farmers were inspected regularly to see that enough wheat was being grown , to estimate crops and to prevent fraud . Nevertheless it happened more than once that farmers , after harvesting their wheat , allowed it to ...
The lands of the farmers were inspected regularly to see that enough wheat was being grown , to estimate crops and to prevent fraud . Nevertheless it happened more than once that farmers , after harvesting their wheat , allowed it to ...
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Van der Stel insisted on all occasions that it was de boeren ( the farmers ) who were attacking him . The memorialists , he declared , were " ignorant farmers ” and “ insolent , rascally farmers ” . As he was about to leave the Cape in ...
Van der Stel insisted on all occasions that it was de boeren ( the farmers ) who were attacking him . The memorialists , he declared , were " ignorant farmers ” and “ insolent , rascally farmers ” . As he was about to leave the Cape in ...
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Untaught , hardly even deemed worthy of employment , the majority of them were of necessity dependent on colonial farmers . While there is no reason to doubt that on most farms masters and servants lived quite peaceably together , it is ...
Untaught , hardly even deemed worthy of employment , the majority of them were of necessity dependent on colonial farmers . While there is no reason to doubt that on most farms masters and servants lived quite peaceably together , it is ...
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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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