Hillegas, Howard C.

Oom Paul’s People – A Narrative Of The British-Boer Troubles in South Africa, with a History of The Boers, The Country, And Its Institutions. Illustrated with Eight Photographs and a Map of South Africa.

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1899. 12.5 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece, XI, 308 pages. 8 plates. Map of South Africa at front. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Lettering and pictorial on front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean and sharp cornered. Preowner’s details on front endpaper.

Includes, for example, the following: South Africa of the Present Time / The Early History of the Boer Race / The Johannesburg Gold Fields / President Kruger / Cecil John Rhodes / Causes of Present Dissensions / American Interests in South Africa.

Published in the same year as the outbreak of the second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902).
A sympathetic profile of the Boers and their political leadership written for an American audience by the New York World journalist. Charts the history of the Boers in South Africa and their two republics, the British colonial presence in the region, and the political crisis emerging out of the struggle for control of the region’s developing gold and diamond mining industries.

• Keywords: Africa · Africa – Rare · Africa, British Southern · Africa, Southern · Africana Collection of Rare Books · American Author(s) · american foreign policy · Boer War · Boers · British Colonial History · British Empire · British Imperial · Cecil Rhodes · colonial · Colonial History · Colonial Wars · Colonialism · Diamonds · Gold · Journalist(s) · Paul Kruger · Politics · Politics & government · Race · Settler · Settlers · South Africa · South African War · Travel Africa – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120116AB

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