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• South Africa -- History -- 1836-
• South Africa -- History -- 1836-1909
• South Africa -- History -- 1909-1961
• South Africa -- History -- 1961-1994
• South Africa -- History -- 19th century
• South Africa -- History -- Frontier Wars, 1811-1878
• South Africa -- History -- Rebellion, 1914-1915
• South Africa -- History -- Soweto Uprising, 1976
• South Africa -- History -- To 1836
• South Africa -- History, Military
• South African War, 1899-1902
• Zulu War, 1879
• Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History
• KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- History
• Mafikeng (South Africa) -- History
• Soweto (South Africa) -- History
• Transvaal (South Africa) -- History
• Zululand (South Africa) -- History
• Apartheid -- South Africa -- History
• Communism -- South Africa -- History
• Diamond industry and trade -- South Africa -- History
• Economic development -- South Africa -- History
• Families -- South Africa -- Cedar Mountains -- History
• Group identity -- South Africa -- Cedar Mountains -- History
• Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure -- South Africa -- History
• Jews -- South Africa -- History
• Labor movement -- South Africa -- History
• Labor unions -- South Africa -- History
• Land settlement -- South Africa -- Cedar Mountains -- History
• Land tenure -- South Africa -- Cedar Mountains -- History
• Law -- South Africa -- History
• Politics and literature -- South Africa -- History
• Real property -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Cedar Mountains -- History
• Social conflict -- South Africa -- Cedar Mountains -- History
• Zionism -- South Africa -- History
• Zulu (African people) -- South Africa -- History

• An African Explains Apartheid (New York: F. A. Praeger, 1963), by Jordan K. Ngubane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Africa South (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1962), by Harm J. De Blij (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Scouting on Two Continents (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., c1926), by Frederick Russell Burnham, ed. by Mary Nixon Everett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1903), by John Buchan (Gutenberg text)
• South Africa, by Ian Duncan Colvin, illust. by G. S. Smithard and J. S. Skelton (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• The Story of Melina Rorke, R.R.C. (New York: Greystone Press, 1938), by Melina Rorke (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Vredesonderhandelingen Tusschen de Regeeringen der Twee Zuid-Afrikaansche Republieken en de Vertegegenwoordigers der Britische Regeering, Welke Uitliepen op den Vrede, op 31 Mei 1902 te Vereeniging Gesloten (in Dutch; Pretoria-Amsterdam, J. H. de Bussy, 1909), by J. D. Kestell and D. E. van Velden
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• Letters from South Africa (London and New York: Macmillan, 1893), by Flora L. Shaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Peace Negotiations Between the Governments of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, and the Representatives of the British Government, Which Terminated in the Peace Concluded at Vereeniging on the 31st May, 1902 (London: R. Clay and Sons, 1912), by J. D. Kestell and D. E. van Velden
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Story of the Boers, Narrated by Their Own Leaders, by Cornelius W. Van Der Hoogt (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Impressions of South Africa (third edition; London: Macmillan and Co., 1899), by James Bryce (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Story of the Boers, Narrated by Their Own Leaders, by Cornelius W. Van Der Hoogt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Class and Colour in South Africa, 1850-1950, by Jack Simons and Ray Simons (HTML in South Africa)

• Class and Colour in South Africa, 1850-1950, by Jack Simons and Ray Simons (HTML in South Africa)

• J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by David Attwell (illustrated HTML at UC Press)

• The Cape and the Kaffirs: A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland; With a Chapter of Advice to Emigrants, Based on the Latest Official Returns, and the Most Recent Information Regarding the Colony (third edition; London: H. G. Bohn, 1851), by Harriet Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Sketch of the Kafir and Zulu Wars: Guadana to Isandhlwana (London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1880), by Henry Hallam Parr (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Tents in the Transvaal (London: R. Bentley and Son, 1879), by Mrs. Hutchinson
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  • page images at HathiTrust

• Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion, by Sol. T. Plaatje
  • HTML in South Africa
  • Gutenberg text

• "I Saw a Nightmare--"; Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 (c2006), by Helena Pohlandt-McCormick (illustrated HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• Record of the Cape Mounted Riflemen (London: Sir J. Causton and Sons, 1909), by Basil Williams
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• Briton and Boer: Both Sides of the South African Question (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1900), contrib. by James Bryce, Sydney Brooks, F. V. Engelenburg, Karl Blind, Andrew Carnegie, Francis Charmes, Demetrius Charles Boulger, Max Simon Nordau, Hans Delbrück, Vladimir Gol'mstrem, Ė. Ė. Ukhtomskīĭ, and Edmund Gosse (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Golden Deeds of the War (London: G. Newnes, 1900), by Alfred Thomas Story (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lessons of the War: Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith (1900), by Spenser Wilkinson (Gutenberg text)
• South Africa and the Transvaal War (8 volumes; 1900-ca. 1902), by Louis Creswicke
  • Volume I (From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899): Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • Volume II (From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899): Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • Volume III (From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume IV (From Lord Roberts' Entry into the Free State to the Battle of Karree): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume V (From the Disaster at Koorn Spruit to Lord Roberts's Entry into Pretoria): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume VI (From the Occupation of Pretoria to Mr. Kruger's Departure from South Africa, With a Summarised Account of the Guerilla War to March 1901): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume VII (The Guerilla War, from February 1901 to the Conclusion of Hostilities): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume VIII (South Africa and its Future): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The South-African Crisis (fourth edition; London: Stop the War Committee, ca. 1900), by Abraham Kuyper, ed. by Alfred Ewen Fletcher (page images at ptsem.edu)
• The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1902), by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The War in South Africa: Its Causes and Effects (London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1900), by J. A. Hobson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Report of His Majesty's Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Military Preparations and Other Matters Connected with the War in South Africa (report, appendices, and two accompanying volumes of minutes; London: Printed for HMSO by Wyman and Sons, 1903), by Great Britain Royal Commission on the South African War, 1899-1900 (all 4 volumes; page images at HathiTrust)
• The War in South Africa: Prepared in the Historical Section of the Great General Staff, Berlin (second edition; London: J. Murray, 1904), by Prussia Great General Staff Historical Section, trans. by W. H. H. Waters
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• The War in South Africa: Prepared in the Historical section of the Great General Staff, Berlin (second edition, reprinted; London: J. Murray, 1907), by Prussia Great General Staff Historical Section, trans. by W. H. H. Waters
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• De Vredesonderhandelingen Tusschen de Regeeringen der Twee Zuid-Afrikaansche Republieken en de Vertegegenwoordigers der Britische Regeering, Welke Uitliepen op den Vrede, op 31 Mei 1902 te Vereeniging Gesloten (in Dutch; Pretoria-Amsterdam, J. H. de Bussy, 1909), by J. D. Kestell and D. E. van Velden
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Times History of the War in South Africa (7 volumes; London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1900-1909), ed. by L. S. Amery, Basil Williams, and Erskine Childers
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume III: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume IV: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume V: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Peace Negotiations Between the Governments of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, and the Representatives of the British Government, Which Terminated in the Peace Concluded at Vereeniging on the 31st May, 1902 (London: R. Clay and Sons, 1912), by J. D. Kestell and D. E. van Velden
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 5,000 Miles With the Cheshire Yeomanry in South Africa (Warrington: Mackie and Co.; Chester: Phillipson and Golder, 1913-1914), ed. by John H. Cooke
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• Ian Hamilton's March (Toronto: Copp, Clark Co., c1900), by Winston Churchill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ian Hamilton's March (with the diary of Lt. H. Frankland, prisoner at Pretoria; New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1900), by Winston Churchill, contrib. by H. Frankland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900), by Winston Churchill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• History of the Railways During the War in South Africa, 1899-1902 (London: HMSO, 1903), by P. C. Girouard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Great Boer War, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
• The Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900, by A. T. Mahan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Record of the Cape Mounted Riflemen (London: Sir J. Causton and Sons, 1909), by Basil Williams
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Impressions of South Africa (third edition; London: Macmillan and Co., 1899), by James Bryce (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• History of the Zulu War (London: Richardson and Best; et al., 1880), by Alexander Wilmot (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Sketch of the Kafir and Zulu Wars: Guadana to Isandhlwana (London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1880), by Henry Hallam Parr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cetywayo and His White Neighbours: or, Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal (1882), by H. Rider Haggard (Gutenberg text)

• The French Refugees at the Cape (second edition; Cape Town: Cape Times Limited, 1921), by C. Graham Botha
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• South Africa a Century Ago: Letters From the Cape of Good Hope (1797-1801) (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1910), by Anne Lindsay Barnard, ed. by W. H. Wilkins (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• "I Saw a Nightmare--"; Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 (c2006), by Helena Pohlandt-McCormick (illustrated HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900), by Winston Churchill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Northward Trek (London: A. Melrose, 1909), by Stanley Portal Hyatt
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• The Rise and Fall of Krugerism: A Personal Record of Forty Years in South Africa (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1900), by John Scoble and H. R. Abercrombie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• South Africa and the Transvaal War (8 volumes; 1900-ca. 1902), by Louis Creswicke
  • Volume I (From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899): Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • Volume II (From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899): Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • Volume III (From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume IV (From Lord Roberts' Entry into the Free State to the Battle of Karree): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume V (From the Disaster at Koorn Spruit to Lord Roberts's Entry into Pretoria): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume VI (From the Occupation of Pretoria to Mr. Kruger's Departure from South Africa, With a Summarised Account of the Guerilla War to March 1901): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume VII (The Guerilla War, from February 1901 to the Conclusion of Hostilities): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume VIII (South Africa and its Future): Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Times History of the War in South Africa (7 volumes; London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1900-1909), ed. by L. S. Amery, Basil Williams, and Erskine Childers
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume III: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume IV: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume V: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
• Briton and Boer: Both Sides of the South African Question (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1900), contrib. by James Bryce, Sydney Brooks, F. V. Engelenburg, Karl Blind, Andrew Carnegie, Francis Charmes, Demetrius Charles Boulger, Max Simon Nordau, Hans Delbrück, Vladimir Gol'mstrem, Ė. Ė. Ukhtomskīĭ, and Edmund Gosse (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Native Races and the War (London: Gay and Bird; Newcastle‐on‐Tyne: Mawson, Swan, and Morgan, 1900), by Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler
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  • Gutenberg text

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