The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction

The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction

This text includes several lines of Greek; you made need to adjust your font settings in order for them to display properly. If you place your mouse pointer over the Greek lines, the transliteration will appear. Omitted page numbers reference blank pages in the original text. Footnotes are marked with a number in brackets (e.g., [1]) and appear at the end of their respective chapter or section. Alphabetic links were added to the index for easier navigation. Punctuation has been standardized throughout the text. For details on typographical corrections, please refer to the note at the end of the text. On the last day of May 1902 the signature at Pretoria of the conditions of peace brought to an end a war which had lasted for nearly three years, and had among other things destroyed a government, dissolved a society, and laid waste a country. In those last months of fighting some progress had been made with the reconstructionat least with that not unimportant branch of it which is concerned with the machinery of government. A working administration had been put together, new ordinances in the form of proclamations had been issued, departments had been created and the chief appointments made, the gold industry was beginning to set its house in order, refugees were returning, and already political theories were being mooted and future parties foreshadowed. But it is from the conclusion of peace that the work of resettlement may fairly be taken to commence. Before that date the restrictions of war limited all civil activity; not till the shackles were removed and the civil power left in sole possession does a fair field appear either for approval or criticism. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 34548
Author: Buchan, John
Release Date: Dec 2, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English