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  • Happy People
    Brian H. Jones
    Less than sixty years after the ships of the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Cove, John Eyre wrote that Indigenous Australians were ’strangers in their own land’. Also, he wrote that ’hungry, and famished, they wander about begging’. How did the lives of Indigenous Australians deteriorate so quickly? With this question in mind, Happy People traces the perspectives of settlers on ...
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    31,42 €

  • The Last Commando
    Brian H. Jones
    Cruel, backward, isolationist, and fanatically religious—or independent, resourceful, principled, and courageous? This book is about the Boers of the Transvaal; it is about how they were formed, their relentless territorial expansion at the expense of indigenous groups in both the Cape Colony and the Transvaal, their struggle for distinctiveness and independence against Imperia...
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    23,88 €

  • A Small Space
    Brian H Jones
    In pre-colonial Namibia, Cornelia was a companion and niece of the Oorlam-Nama captain, Jan Jonker Afrikaner. Cornelia joined her uncle’s men on commando in their territorial battles in Namibia (Damaraland and Namaland) during the 1860s. Her relationship with the young British trader, James Neave, was cut short when she died during an attack on Windhoek. One and a quarter cent...
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    28,59 €