The author of this Afrikaans work, who was a former state herald and head of the South African archives, had the good fortune to live to revise the notable first version of this book (based partly on his doctoral thesis from the University of Stellenbosch for which the renowned historian Eric A Walker was his external examiner) no less than 38 years later.
The so-called Cape Patriots led the movement which culminated in the Boers as an identifiable part of the Cape population and who mobilised themselves into the Voortrekker groups of 1838 and later. The \"Patriotte\" flourished in the last quarter of the 1700s, which was a period marked by unsuccessful pleas on behalf of the Cape burgers to the States General in the Netherlands and by the first British occupation of the Cape.
The dustjacket is intact but rubbed and chipped. The beige cloth-boards with black lettering on the spine and the binding are in near-original condition. The plain endpapers are unmarked and undiscoloured. The tipped-in portrait frontispiece and eight other plates, the ix + 400 pp of sources and other prelims, text, appendixes and index are all perfect with only slight finger marking at the bottom edge of the book-block.
A collectable copy of perhaps the most important monograph on ths transitional period of South African history.
- Jacket Condition: Good
- Binding Condition: Fine
- Overall Condition: Fine
- Size: 250 x 160
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