Poems Of South African History Ad 1497 1910 Selected And Edited By A Petrie

Author : A. Petrie
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267217656
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Poems of South African History written by A. Petrie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Poems of South African History: A. D. 1497-1910 The compiler of a book of verse bearing on South African history will perhaps be said to have a some what limited field of operations; and the field, on examination, is really more limited than it looks. Taking the landing of Van Riebeek at the Cape in 16 52 as the starting-point1 of European expansion in the southern portion of the continent, the history of South Africa', from the European point of View, for a century and a half thereafter is the history of the fortunes and expansion of the Dutch settlement at the Cape, which at the end of that period includes but a fraction of the area of the Cape Province as it is today. Not until so recently as the middle of the nineteenth century or thereby, with the foundation of the Overberg republics and the colonization of Natal, does South Africa' approximate to the territorial limits which the present generation associates with it. To-day we sometimes include loosely in the term not merely the area embraced by the Union but the great territory of Rhodesia as well; in other words, the Whole of British South Africa. The history of what. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.