Description |
xii, 360 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
Contents |
Part I. Introduction -- Comparative frontier history / Leonard Thompson and Howard Lamar -- The North American and Southern African frontiers / Leonard Thompson and Howard Lamer -- Part II. Phases and processes -- The North American frontier as process and context / Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. -- Processes in the development of the Southern African frontier / Hermann Giliomee -- Part III. Politics and the frontier -- Indulgent friends and important allies : Political process on the Cis-Mississippi frontier and its aftermath / Clyde A. Milner II. -- Political processes in the Southern African frontier zones / Christopher Saunders -- Part IV. Social and economic processes -- The social and economic frontier in North America / Ramsay Cook -- Capitalism, expansion, and incorporation on the Southern African frontier / Robert Ross-- Part V. Christianity on the frontier -- The invasion within : The contest of cultures in colonial North America / James Axtell -- Africans and the Christian campaign in Southern Africa / Richard Elphick -- Epilogue / Leonard Thompson and Howard Lamar |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliography |
Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- Africa, Southern.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.
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SUBJECT |
Africa, Southern -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001660
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United States -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140129
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United States -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140130
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Author |
Lamar, Howard Roberts.
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Thompson, Leonard, 1916-
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LC no. |
81003008 |
ISBN |
0300026242 |
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