Colonial South Africa
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Frontiers: The Epic of South Africa's Creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa People
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Noël Mostert
4.29 avg rating — 106 ratings 3. 
The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856-7
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J.B. Peires
3.86 avg rating — 94 ratings 4. 
Rogues, Rebels and Runaways: Eighteenth-Century Cape Characters
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Nigel Penn
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 5. 
Krotoa-eva: The Woman from Robben Island
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Kwela Books
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 6. 
Groep Sonder Grense: Die Rol en Status van die Gemengde Bevolking aan die Kaap, 1652-1795
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H.F. Heese
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 7. 
Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
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Martin Meredith
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,279 ratings 
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Murder at Morija: Faith, Mystery, and Tragedy on an African Mission
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Tim Couzens
3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings 11. 
The Forgotten Frontier: Colonist and Khoisan on the Cape's Northern Frontier in the 18th Century
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Nigel Penn
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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The Fall of Rorke's Drift: An Alternate History of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
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John Laband
3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings 
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The House of Phalo: A History of the Xhosa People in the Days of Their Independence
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J.B. Peires
4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings 18. 
Hill of Destiny The Life and Times of Moshesh, Founder of the Basotho
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Peter Becker
3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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Up from Slavery: Slaves at the Cape: Their Origins, Treatment and Contribution liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Land Wars: The Dispossession of the Khoisan and AmaXhosa in the Cape Colony
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John Laband
4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings 27. 
Living Man from Africa: Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa
by:
Roger S. Levine
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 28. 
Song of the Broken String: After the /Xam Bushmen―Poems from a Lost Oral Tradition
by:
Stephen Watson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings 29. 
The Shaping of South African Society, 1652-1840
by:
Richard Elphick
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings 
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The Historical Karoo: Traces of the Past in South Africa's Arid Interior
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Chris Schoeman
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 33. 
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Portrait of a Slave Society: The Cape of Good Hope, 1717-1795
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Karel Schoeman
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 36. 
Paradise, the Castle and the Vineyard: Lady Anne Barnard's Cape Diaries
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Margaret Lenta
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 37.
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Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand, 1886 - 1914, Volume 1: New Babylon really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Bringing the Empire Home: Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa
by:
Zine Magubane
3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings 42. 
Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Order
by:
Tim Keegan
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings 43.
Dr Philip's Empire: One Man's Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century South Africa
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Tim Keegan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 44. 
The Voortrekkers: The story of the Great Trek and the making of South Africa 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Cecil Rhodes, His Private Life by His Private Secretary
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Philip Jourdan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 53. 
Crown and Charter: The Early Years of the British South Africa Company 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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White Tribe Dreaming: Apartheid's Bitter Roots as Witnessed by Eight Generations Afrikaner Family
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Marq de Villiers
4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings 58. 
Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town (African Studies, Series Number 81) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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New Light at the Cape of Good Hope: William Porter, the Father of Cape Liberalism
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J.L. McCracken
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 61. 
Before van Riebeeck: Callers at South Africa from 1488 to 1652
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R. Raven-Hart
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 62. 
Kolonie aan die Kaap: Jan Van Riebeeck en die Vestiging van die Eerste Blankes, 1652-1662
by:
Karel Schoeman
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Promise and Despair: The First Struggle for a Non-Racial South Africa
by:
Martin Plaut
3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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The Huguenots of South Africa, 1688-1988
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Pieter Coertzen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Cape Conflict: Protest and Political Alliances in a Dutch Settlement
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Teun Baartman
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 71. 
Slavery in Dutch South Africa (African Studies, Series Number 44)
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Nigel Worden
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 72. 
Breaking the Chains: Slavery and Its Legacy in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony
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Nigel Worden
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating 73. 
Murderers, miscreants, and mutineers: early colonial Cape lives
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Nigel Penn
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 74. 
White Chief, Black Lords: Shepstone and the Colonial State in Natal, South Africa, 1845-1878 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, 46) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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White Men's Dreams, Black Men's Blood: African Labor and British Expansionism in Southern Africa, 1877-1895 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Black and White in South Africa: The Politics of Survival
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G.H.L. Le May
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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The Politics of a South African Frontier: The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the Missionaries, 17801840 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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An American Family on the African Frontier: The Burnham Family Letters, 1893-1896
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Mary Bradford
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 81. 
Hidden Histories of Gordonia: Land dispossession and resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800–1990 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Struggle for the Eastern Cape 1800-1854: Subjugation and the Roots of South African Democracy (Democracy in Africa Series) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Zulu Rising: The Epic Story of iSandlwana and Rorke's Drift
by:
Ian Knight
4.30 avg rating — 309 ratings 85. 
Zulu Warriors: The Battle for the South African Frontier
by:
John Laband
4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings 
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To the Fairest Cape: European Encounters in the Cape of Good Hope
by:
Malcolm Jack
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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From the Spice Islands to Cape Town: The Life and Times of Tuan Guru
by:
Shafiq Morton
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 95. 
Assegais, Drums & Dragoons: A Military & Social History of the Cape
by:
Willem Steenkamp
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 96. 
Fuelling the Empire: South Africa's Gold and the Road to War
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John J. Stephens
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 97. 
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The Transvaal from Within: A Private Record of Public Affairs really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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