英帝国的“推力”与布尔人的“民族大迁徙”

19世纪的布尔人民族大迁徙是研究南非历史无法绕开的一个问题,究其最重要和最根本的原因,英帝国的推力起到了关键作用。在成为开普殖民地的主人后,经过工业革命洗礼的英国殖民当局颁布了旨在促进殖民地资本主义生产的一系列农地制度改革措施,以及给予科伊人和班图黑人某种平等地位、实行自由雇佣制的第五十号法令与释奴法令,最终迫使布尔人集体逃离开普殖民地,深入内陆建立起德兰士瓦共和国和奥兰治自由邦,并在那里实行种族隔离政策,从而对南非的发展产生了深远影响。

Promotion from the British Empire and the Mass Ethnic Migration of the Boers

The Mass ethnic migration of the Bowers known as the Great Trek in 1880s is a topic that cannot be avoided in South African studies.The most important and essential reason is that the British Empire promoted the migration.After becoming the master of the Cape colony,the British colonial authority which had experienced the Industrial Revolution promulgated a series of land reform measures so as to promote the capitalist production in the colony and laws such as giving the Khoe and Bantu equal status in socie...