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1 online resource (418 pages)
ISBN:
9783905758559
Content:
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 tradition" in South African historiography drew on the insights he had gained in writing this dissertation. It served to initiate the debate about the importance of the precolonial frontier situation in South Africa for the establishment of ideas of race, the development of racial prejudice and, implicitly, the creation of segregationist and apartheid systems. Today, the constructed histories of "Griqua" and other categories of indigeneity have re emerged in South Africa as influential tools of political mobilisation and claims on resources.
Content:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on this Edition -- Martin Legassick, The Griqua and South Africa's historiographical revival: an appreciation -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Concept of the 'Frontier Zone' -- The Present Study: Focus, Sources and Methods -- 1. The Sotho-Tswana Peoples before 1800 -- The Dispersal of the Kwena and Kgatla Lineage-Clusters -- The Rolong, the Tlhaping and the Kora, 1700 - 1800 -- 2. The Evolution of a Frontier Society, 1700 - 1775 -- The Evolution of a New Society in the Interior, 1700 - 1775 -- The Northern Frontier Society in the Eighteenth Century -- 3. The Frontier Zone and Colonial Policy, c. 1770 - 1815 -- The Frontier Zone in the North, 1700 - 1800: Trade, Warfare, and Acculturation -- The Colonial Government, the Northern Frontier and the Missionaries, 1800 - 1815 -- 4. The Development of the Griqua State, 1800 - 1820 -- The 'Hartenaar' Rebellion -- The Demise of the Traditional Chiefs at Griquatown -- Fission Among the Griqua -- 5. The Frontier Zone in Transorangia, 1800 - 1820 -- The Extension of the Frontier Society in Transorangia, 1800 - 1820 -- The Tlhaping 'Confederation' and the Frontier Zone, 1790 - 1820 -- 6. The Griqua and the Colonial Government, 1815 - 1826 -- The Bergenaar Rebellion -- 7. Dislocation in Transorangia, 1820 - 1826 -- The Difaqane in Transorangia, 1822 - 1825 -- The Bergenaars in Transorangia, 1822 - 1826 -- The Difaqane, the Bergenaars, and the Kora, 1822 - 1826 -- The Difaqane, the Bergenaars, and the Southern Sotho-Tswana, 1824 - 1828 -- 8. The New Balance of Power, 1826 - 1832 -- The First Years of the Philippolis and Boetsap States: The 'Old' Chiefs, Missionaries, and Government, 1826 - 1832 -- Andries Waterboer at Griquatown, 1826 - 1832 -- The Influence of Mzilikazi on the Transorangia Power Balance, 1829 - 1832.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783905758146
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783905758146
Language:
English
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