The settlers of South Africa and the expanding frontier
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Keywords
migration; colonialism; settler; Voortrekker; South Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N37 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Africa; Oceania
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EVO-2020-09-07 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2020-09-07 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-MIG-2020-09-07 (Economics of Human Migration)
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