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The Frontier in history : North America and Southern Africa compared / edited by Howard Lamar and Leonard Thompson.
Record no.:
3863
Author:
Lamar, Howard Roberts.;
Thompson, Leonard Monteath.;
Publisher:
New Haven :: Yale University Press,
Year:
1981.
Description:
xii, 360 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Subject:
Frontier and pioneer life - United States.;
Frontier and pioneer life - Africa, Southern.;
United States - History.;
Africa, Southern - History.;
Notes:
Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-333) and index.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0300026242 9780300026245;
Abstract:
Part I. Introduction --

Comparative frontier history /

Leonard Thompson and Howard Lamar --

The North American and Southern African frontiers /

Leonard Thompson and Howard Lamer --

Part II. Phases and processes --

The
North American frontier as process and context /

Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. --

Processes in the development of the Southern African frontier /

Hermann Giliomee --

Part III. Politics and the frontier --

Indulgent friends and important allies : Political process on the Cis-Mississippi frontier and its aftermath /

Clyde A. Milner II. --

Political processes in the Southern African frontier zones /

Christopher Saunders --

Part IV. Social and economic processes --

The social and economic frontier in North America /

Ramsay Cook --

Capitalism, expansion, and incorporation on the Southern African frontier /

Robert Ross --

Part V. Christianity on the frontier --

The invasion within : The contest of cultures in colonial North America /

James Axtell --

Africans and the Christian campaign in Southern Africa /

Richard Elphick --

Epilogue /

Leonard Thompson and Howard Lamar.
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