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"Bechuanaland (now Botswana)" as a book category covers works focused on the geographic and historical area that became the modern state of Botswana—primarily the Bechuanaland Protectorate (est. 1885) and, less commonly, the earlier British Bechuanaland territory absorbed into the Cape Colony—up to and including the country’s independence in 1966 and its subsequent development. It includes history, colonial administration records, political and independence movements, biographies of key figures, ethnography and studies of Tswana societies and other indigenous groups, missionary and travel accounts, natural history and wildlife of the Kalahari, economic studies (e.g., cattle and later diamond industries), maps and archival primary sources, and fiction set in the region. Such a category signals interest in colonial-era dynamics, cultural change, nation-building, and regional geography, and is useful for historians, anthropologists, students, and general readers seeking both scholarly and popular treatments of the area.

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