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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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Main Author: Legassick, Martin (Author)
Other Authors: Ross, Robert (Author of introduction, etc.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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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
Physical Description:1 online resource (418 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9783905758559