The politics of a South African frontier : the Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the missionaries, 1780-1840 /
This book publishes Martin Legassick's influential doctoral thesis on the preindustrial South African frontier zone of Transorangia. The impressive formation of the Griqua states in the first half of the nineteenth century outside the borders of the Cape Colony and their relations with Sotho-Ts...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basel, Switzerland :
Basler Afrika Bibliographien,
2010.
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| Summary: | This book publishes Martin Legassick's influential doctoral thesis on the preindustrial South African frontier zone of Transorangia. The impressive formation of the Griqua states in the first half of the nineteenth century outside the borders of the Cape Colony and their relations with Sotho-Tswana polities, frontiersmen, missionaries and the British administration of the Cape take centre stage in the analysis. The Griqua, of mixed settler and Indigenous descent, secured hegemony in a frontier of complex partnerships and power struggles. The author's subsequent critique of the ""frontier tradi |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (418 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783905758559 3905758555 3905758148 9783905758146 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |