The Frontier in history : North America and Southern Africa compared / edited by Howard Lamar and Leonard Thompson.

Contributor Lamar, Howard Roberts.

Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, c1981.

Descriptionxii, 360 p. : maps ; 25 cm.

Note:Includes index.

Note:Part I. Introduction -- Comparative frontier history / Leonard Thompson, Howard Lamar -- The North American and Southern African frontiers / Leonard Thompson, 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.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 317-333.

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