Robert Vicat Turrell's Books

Based on new documentary sources, this history of diamond mining in Kimberley is a major study of South Africa's mineral revolution and the formation of De Beers Consolidated Mines, one of the most successful African mining companies.

This is the detailed narrative of the Kat River Settlement, which was located on the border between the Cape Colony and the amaXhosa in the Eastern Cape of South Africa during the nineteenth century. The settlement created a fertile landscape in the valley and developed a political theology of great political and racial importance to the evolution of the Cape and of South Africa as a whole.

The definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of the 19th century captures a life that was complex and fascinating, evil and good. Illustrated.

This book provides a succinct synthesis of South African history from the introduction of agriculture about 1500 years ago up to and including the government of Nelson Mandela. Stressing economic, social, cultural and environmental matters as well as political history, it shows how South Africa has become a single country. On the one hand it lays emphasis on the country's African heritage, and shows how this continues to influence social structures, ways of thought and ideas of governance. On the other, it chronicles the processes of colonial conquest and of economic development and unification stemming from the industrial revolution which began at the end of the nineteenth century. This leads on to a description and analysis of the fundamental political changes which South Africa is currently undergoing, while providing a background for the understanding of those many things which have not changed.

Book's by Robert Vicat Turrell

Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields, 1871-1890

Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields, 1871-1890

The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa

The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa

The Founder

The Founder

A Concise History of South Africa

A Concise History of South Africa

Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields, 1871-1890

Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields, 1871-1890

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