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 Great Trek , taking it year by year , drained off almost all the natural increase of the white population of Cape ... gold discoveries provided a local market for meat and maize and wheat to feed the populations of the mining camps ...
The Great Trek , taking it year by year , drained off almost all the natural increase of the white population of Cape ... gold discoveries provided a local market for meat and maize and wheat to feed the populations of the mining camps ...
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PRESSURE OF AFRICAN POPULATION ON LAND 841 each other ” that the missionary James Clark could make the startlingly true prophecy that the first drought would cause widespread starvation . Everywhere the best land was occupied .
PRESSURE OF AFRICAN POPULATION ON LAND 841 each other ” that the missionary James Clark could make the startlingly true prophecy that the first drought would cause widespread starvation . Everywhere the best land was occupied .
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... the hungry ' forties on the Eastern Frontier , the fearsome disease that decimated the herds in the ' fifties and the long agony of almost a decade of droughts in the ' sixties were bitter trials to the Native population .
... the hungry ' forties on the Eastern Frontier , the fearsome disease that decimated the herds in the ' fifties and the long agony of almost a decade of droughts in the ' sixties were bitter trials to the Native population .
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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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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8 The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Arthur Percival Newton |
| Editors | John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1929 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 Jan 2007 |
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