Theal, George McCall.

History of the Boers in South Africa. Or The Wanderings and Wars of the Emigrant Farmers From Their Leaving The Cape Colony To The Acknowledgement Of Their Independence by Great Britain.

London, Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co, 1887. 15.5 cm x 22.5 cm. XVI, 392 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Small gilt embossment to front board. Blind ruling to boards. Gilt top-edge. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding firm. Interior is unmarked and bright.

Includes, for example, the following: Tshake – Dingiswayo – Ravages of the Batlojua and Makololo – The Barolong Tribe / Purchase by Commandant Potgieter of a Tract of Land from the Bataung Chief, Makwana – Massacre of Emigrants by the Matabele / Formation of an English Settlement at Port Natal – Negotiations with Dingan / History of the Pondo Tribe – The Bacas – Rush of Zulu Refugees into Natal – Proposal of the Volksraad as to Future Government / History of the Griquas – Purchase of the Land between the Modder and Vaal Rivers by David Fourie – Expansion of the Basuto Tribe – Foundation of Bloemfontein – Movements of the Emigrants north of the Vaal / Creation of the Crown Colony of British Kaffraria – Proclamation of Her Majesty’s Sovereignty over the Territory between the Orange and Vall Rivers / Commission of the Dutch Reformed Church – Movements of the Barolong / Commando against Moshesh – Battle of Viervoet – The Kaffir War – The Sand River Convention, by which the Independence of the Transvaal Emigrants was acknowledged / Effects of Moshesh’s Attitude upon the Tribes north of the Vaal – Events that led to Hostilities with the Bakwena – Trouble with the Barolong of Montsiwa – Form of Government in the South African Republic etc.

George McCall Theal (11 April 1837, Saint John, New Brunswick – 17 April 1919, Wynberg, Cape Town), was the most prolific and influential South African historian, archivist and genealogist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. (Wikipedia)
Taking the late 19th century as his personal vantage-point, Theal portrayed the colonial experience in South Africa in terms of a unique, emerging ‘new society’ of white ‘civilising’ settlement. Claiming to offer an impartial and scientific account of the making of ‘South Africa’, he in fact developed a highly personal view of that history of contact and conquest.
According to Christopher Saunders, Theal wrote ‘History of the Boers in South Africa’ when he had lost his early sympathies for missionary impulses to work with the indigenous tribes in order to improve their conditions and had began to interpret history in ways far more favourable to the politics of Boer expansionism and settler political power. (Christopher Saunders, ‘George McCall Theal and Lovedale, ’ History in Africa, Vol. 8 (1981), pp. 155-164)

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120205AB

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