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Article: The Forgotten Frontier: Colonist and Khoisan on the Cape's Northern Frontier in the 19th Century.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- December 22, 2008
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The Forgotten Frontier: Colonist and Khoisan on the Cape's Northern Frontier in the 19th Century. By Nigel Penn (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2005. 388 pp.). The frontier zone occupies an important place in Southern African historical studies. Over the past fifty years, scholars of Southern Africa, influenced in part by Turner's thesis on the American frontier, have devoted considerable attention to the frontier as a zone of militatry, economic and cultural contact between white colonists and indigenous peoples. However, much of this literature has focused on the eastward expansion of white settlers from the Western Cape during the inineteenth century. Scholars have ...