Title The politics of a South African frontier : the Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the missionaries, 1780-1840 / Martin Chatfield Legassick ; introduction by Robert Ross

Published Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2010 ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (418 pages) : illustrations, maps 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Griquas -- Missions -- South Africa Sotho (African people) -- Missions -- South Africa Tswana (African people) -- Missions -- South Africa Griquas -- History Missions -- South Africa -- History Bilingual & multilingual dictionaries. HISTORY -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General. Griquas Missions Politics and government Tswana (African people) -- Missions Tswana Sotho Griqua Kolonialismus Mission South Africa -- Politics and government -- To 1836. South Africa -- History -- To 1836. Northern Cape (South Africa) -- History South Africa South Africa -- Northern Cape Südafrika Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Ross, Robert, author of introduction, etc Legassick, Martin. Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the missionaries, 1780-1840 ISBN 9783905758559 3905758555 3905758148 9783905758146

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