Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Power in theory and practice
  • 2. Transcripts of the past : the BaSotho under colonial rule
  • 3. Prelude to rebellion : pitsos, magistrates, and the imposition of colonial rule
  • 4. The white horse and the jailhouse key : Moorosi's rebellion
  • 5. Guns, diplomacy, and discourse : the gun war
  • 6. Hidden discourse in the public transcript : ceremony and subversion
  • 7. Lerotholi and "Masopha's War" : the colonial/civil war of 1898
  • 8. Of laws, courts, and chiefs : the twentieth century
  • 9. Of paramente and power : terror in Basutoland
  • 10. Discourse and subterfuge : responses to medicine murder
  • 11. Seeking sovereignty and the rule of law.