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- Cloete , W. B. 1900 . The History of the Great Boer Trek and the Origin of the South African Republics 3rd ed. (London, The first edition was published in Cape Town in 1856
- Walker , E. 1934 . The Great Trek London (2nd London, 1938). It went through five editions in the two decades after it was published
- Saunders , C. 1988 . The Making of the South African Past: Major Historians on Race and Class Edited by: Lehmann , E. and Reckwitz , E. Cape Town (and C. Saunders, ‘Eric Walker's Interpretation of Nineteenth Century South African History’, in, eds, Mfecane to Boer War: Versions of South African History (Essen, 1992)
- Milner , A. C. 1994 . The Oxford History of the American West New York The term is now frequently used by American historians. See, for example et al, (363:‘The great trek from Missouri and Illinois to Utah formed the central event in Mormon history.’ The comparison with the Mormons was taken up in the 1960s by a Mormon who did extensive work on this period of South African history: see W. Lye, ed., Andrew Smith's Journal of his Expedition into the Interior of South Africa, 1834–36 (Cape Town, 1975) and C. Murray and W. Lye, Transformations on the Highveld: The Tswana and Southern Sotho (Cape Town, 1980). Walker's other comparison was with the movement of Afrikaners to the towns in the twentieth century, though he ended his book by wondering whether the entire history of white occupation of South Africa was ‘nothing but a halting and still unfinished Great Trek. Historians may see it so some day’: Walker, Great Trek, p. 377. In 1957 Sheila Patterson published her study of Afrikaners under the title The Last Trek (London, 1957) and more recently F. W. de Klerk has published his The Last Trek: A New Beginning. The Autobiography (London, 2000)
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- 1997 . Like others at the time, Walker related the Great Trek to the trek of Afrikaners to the cities in his own day, but he did not extend the comparison to the movement of black people from the South in the United States in the early twentieth century (on which see P.L. Bonner, “The Great Migration” and “the Greatest Trek” in Comparative Perspective' (Seminar Paper, Oxford University, For Walker, ‘trek’ applied to the migration of Afrikaners, or by extension ‘whites’, of whom the Afrikaners formed the majority. He did not therefore wonder why, for example, more place-names of indigenous origin have survived in the United States than in South Africa. Etherington mentions this (p. xv), and finds it surprising, given that in South Africa indigenous peoples survived in far greater numbers than in North America. But the process of conquest was more rapid and destructive in the interior of South Africa than in most parts of North America
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- Majeke , N. 1952 . The Role of the Missionaries in Conquest (D. Taylor), (Alexandria, n.d. []), xi. See also ‘Mnguni’ (Hosea Jaffe), Three Hundred Years (n.p. [Cape Town], n.d. [1952]) and D. Evans, ‘Rethinking the Great Trek’ (Paper presented at biennial conference of the South African Historical Society, 1995). The seminal work on the United States along these lines is Francis Jennings, The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest (New York, 1976)
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- Cobbing , J. 1988 . ‘The Mfecane as Alibi: Thoughts on Dithakong and Mbolompo’ . Journal of African History , 29
- Etherington , N. 1991 . ‘The Great Trek in Relation to the Mfecane: A Reassessment’ . South African Historical Journal , 25
- Etherington , N. 1995 . “ ‘Old Wine in New Bottles: The Persistence of Narrative Structures in the Historiography of the Mfecane and the Great Trek’ ” . In The Mfecane Aftermath: Reconstructive Debates in Southern African History Edited by: Hamilton , C. 35 Johannesburg in, ed., (This was a little-changed version of his 1991 paper
- Etherington . Great Treks 277, and the map taken from Omer-Cooper, Zulu Aftermath, 276
- Keegan , T. Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Order (London, 2009).
- Lester , A. 2001 . Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth-Century South Africa and Britain London (215 n. 127
- le Cordeur , B. and Saunders , C. , eds. 1981 . The War of the Axe 313 Johannesburg For example, what he says about the War of the Axe on p. would have benefited by some reference to, eds
- 1994 . Twentieth Century South Africa Oxford A similar approach is taken by, for example, William Beinart in