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1 online resource (418 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The Sotho-Tswana people before 1800 -- The evolution of a frontier society, 1700-1775 -- The frontier zone and colonial policy, c. 1770-1815 -- The development of the Griqua state, 1800-1820 -- The frontier zone in Transorangia, 1800-1820 -- The Griqua and the colonial government, 1815-1826 -- Dislocation in Transorangia, 1820-1826 -- The new balance of power, 1826-1832 -- John Philip, Robert Moffat, and the Griqua, 1819-1832 -- Griqua expansionism, I: Andreis Waterboer in Transorangia, 1832-1836 -- Griqua expansionism, II: church and state at Griquatown and Philippolis, 1836-1842 -- The decline of Griqua hegemony -- Conclusion. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Griquas -- Missions -- South Africa.
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Griquas. |
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Missions. |
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South Africa. |
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Sotho (African people) -- Missions -- South Africa.
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Sotho (African people) |
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Tswana (African people) -- Missions -- South Africa.
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Tswana (African people) -- Missions. |
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Tswana (African people) |
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Griquas -- History.
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History. |
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Missions -- South Africa -- History.
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South Africa -- Politics and government -- To 1836.
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1836 |
| Subject |
South Africa -- History -- To 1836.
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Northern Cape (South Africa) -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ross, Robert, 1949 July 26- author of introduction, etc.
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Legassick, Martin.
Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the missionaries, 1780-1840.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Legassick, Martin. Politics of a South African frontier : the Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the missionaries, 1780-1840. Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, ©2010 xxii, 394 pages 9783905758146 |
| ISBN |
9783905758559 (electronic book) |
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3905758555 (electronic book) |
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9783905758146 |
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