UID:
edocfu_9960117850002883
Format:
1 online resource (xxiv, 501 pages) :
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illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-78286-1
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. History
Content:
George McCall Theal was a prolific South African historian & civil servant. After working as a missionary between 1875-1880 he was appointed magistrate of Tamacha before taking a position as a clerk in the government & became Keeper of the Cape Colony Archives. He was appointed Colonial Historiographer in 1891. These volumes, first published in 1907, contain Theal's detailed history of South Africa between 1505-1795. Theal discusses the formation of the colony from the first Portuguese conquests, exploring the Dutch colonial establishment & administration. Theal also describes the societies of the various indigenous peoples of South Africa & their relations with the colonists. This volume provides valuable details on the administration of the Dutch colony, & reveals contemporary attitudes to the ideas of history & colonisation. These volumes are reissued from the expanded 1910 edition.
Note:
"From the settlement of the Portuguese at Sofala in September 1505 to the conquest of the Cape Colony by the British in September 1795"--original title page.
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Also issued in print: 2010.
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Originally published: London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim., 1910.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-02332-0
Language:
English
