POLS 2080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: British South Africa Company, Military History Of South Africa, Cecil Rhodes
24 Jan 2019
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Case: south africa: discovered in 1488 by portuguese, 1717: bohrs farmers dutch, went there to settle in cape colony, 1652: trading post for the dutch east india company. South africa: christian fundamentalist, wanted religious freedom, establish colony in. First war that specifically targeted civilians: basically started modern warfare, first imperial war- british were supported by their own troops from australia nad new. Republic became part of the british empire: but as a concession, british, allowed the language of the boers to be used in. Eventually orchestrated the consolidation of all african mining businesess: 1891- owned 91% of worlds mining, entered cape parliament, granted british south african company (cc) something to do with. Rhodesia: wanted to build a railroad from egypt to south africa, eventually became prime minister, imperialism incarnate- entrepreneur who manipulated the british. Prior to colonialism, australia was populated by 500,000 aborigines in isolated tribal.
