books.google.co.uk - In this masterly work of synthesis and reinterpretation, Timothy Keegan looks anew at the relatively neglected period of South African history before the mineral age - in particular the years of British rule up to the 1850s - and decisively establishes its importance in the shaping of South African society....http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Colonial_South_Africa_Origins_Racial_Ord.html?id=19prds0saccC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareColonial South Africa:Origins Racial Order