The History of Southern Africa

South Africa, Brazil and rhodesia are key examples of what we could call gunpower. The state reverts to a more strict monopoly on violence after the settler colonial geneside in australia. In southern africa you have a hardy group of settlers who are gripped by an austere calvinist vision. They want to pursue herding and farming and produce large families but also are in continual war. And practise slavery of coico and other indigenous african groups rite at the point at which itis very striking that british control grows.