Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.06.2019
Herausgeber
A. H. KeaneVerlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
384
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/14/2,3 cm
Gewicht
540 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5370-665-4
On the high veld and along contested rivers, two young republics tried to define a country. The frontier is never simple. A. H. Keane's The Boer states; land and people is a historical geography book of Victorian era South Africa, written with the alert eye of a traveller and the organising mind of an ethnographer. Moving between landscape, routes, resources and communities, Keane sketches the Transvaal and Orange Free State as lived places: farms and market towns, borderlands and grazing country, and the uneasy weave of settler and indigenous relations. Part colonial era travel writing, part ethnographic nonfiction account, it reads as both narrative survey and usable reference for anyone wanting texture behind maps and dates. Keane writes before later myth-making hardened; his categories invite critical reading, and his assembling of facts supports a scholarly reference work for students, historians, and armchair travellers today. Published in the late nineteenth century, this primary source account captures the assumptions, arguments and anxieties that fed imperial policy and local identity, making it valuable boer war background reading and a revealing strand of British imperial history. Collectors of classic exploration and geography will prize its period voice and scope, while modern readers will find a compact guide to South African frontier life and the long shadow of boer republics history. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.
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