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From: "Tanya V. Walters" <>
Subject: RE: historical overview of SA
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 23:18:43 +1100
In-Reply-To: <009b01c190fa$403f5280$111a07c4@brianso>

Thanks for the info Brian.

The books I have found so far tend to do some on early history and most
on modern SA history. I am looking for something that covers the 1600's
to the very early 1900's more in depth, so I will see if I can find this
one you refer to.

Regards

Tanya

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Southwood [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, 30 December 2001 4:16 PM
To:
Subject: Re: historical overview of SA

The Readers Digest published the "Illustrated History of South Africa -
The Real
Story" which I bought in 1999 for R150. Whether it falls into your
category of
"a good historical overview " I don't know but I find it fills my needs.
It is
over 500 pages, fairly comprehensive and is well illustrated. I am not
familiar
with Davenport so cannot comment on how it compares. It has 4 references
to
Adriaan van Jaarsveld.

Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tanya V. Walters" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 1:45 AM
Subject: RE: Van Jaarsveld Rebellion


> Thanks for the reply John, appreciate it.
>
> I am looking for a good historical overview of SA and obviously
> Davenport is not it. If you should find a really good one would love
to
> know.
>
> Regards
>
> Tanya
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J A Hunt [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, 30 December 2001 1:42 AM
> To: Tanya V. Walters
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: Van Jaarsveld Rebellion
>
> Hi Tanya,
> I'm sorry that only one of my new books has arrived--the one by
> Davenport and Saunders. I doubt if the other one would have the info
> you
> want anyway. My pages on the van Jaarsveld rebellion are the same as
> those
> you already have from Andrew Rodger. Unfortunately, Davenport is both
> long-winded and brief at the same time. It is very hard to extract
the
> information that one needs from his book--all 807 pages of it! I'm
> trying
> to plough through the parts I want, but an overview of history it is
> not.
> Let me know if I can help further,
> John Hunt.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tanya V. Walters" <>
> To: "'J A Hunt'" <>
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 10:27 PM
> Subject: Van Jaarsveld Rebellion
>
>
> > John
> >
> > By any chance do you have any info from your SA History books on the
> Van
> > Jaarsveld Rebellion in 1799?
> >
> > Appreciate any help. If you have a scanner would love any pages you
> find
> > on the Rebellion.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tanya
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: J A Hunt [mailto:]
> > Sent: Monday, 17 December 2001 2:22 AM
> > To:
> > Subject: Khoisan & Slavery.
> >
> > Hi Listers,
> > Many thanks to all who replied. I have not heard from Kammie
yet
> > and will send to his private Email next week if not. He may be
away.
> > I have recieved much useful information. Yesterday I ordered
> Nigel
> > Worden's latest edition on the Net. I also ordered "South Africa --
A
> > Modern History" by TRH Davenport. I suspect the first may be less
dry
> > and more apposite than the Davenport book.
> > All this for about half a line in my chapter! But I sorely
> needed
> > some up-to-date history books, putting things in a better
perspective
> > than I had before I left the country 23 years ago.
> > To answer one of my own questions, it seems the spelling is
> > Khoikhoi, or combined with San is Khoisan. ( I got this from
> > Davenport's book summary on the Amazon.com website.)
> > Let's keep up some discusion. I will let the list know if the
> book
> > is ever finished!
> > John Hunt.
> >
> >
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> >
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