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A living man from Africa : Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa chief and missionary, and the making of nineteenth-century South Africa / Roger S. Levine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levine, Roger S.
- Series:
- New directions in narrative history.
- New directions in narrative history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tzatzoe, Jan, b. ca. 1792-1868.
- Tzatzoe, Jan.
- Tzatzoe, Jan, b. ca. 1792-1868--Political and social views.
- Xhosa (African people)--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Xhosa (African people).
- Missionaries--South Africa--Biography.
- Missionaries.
- Christian biography--South Africa.
- Christian biography.
- Social change--South Africa--History--19th century.
- Social change.
- South Africa--History--To 1836.
- South Africa.
- South Africa--History--1836-1909.
- South Africa--Colonization.
- South Africa--Ethnic relations--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource (xiii, 291 p., [16] p. of plates) ) ill., maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change-one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary, chief, and cultural intermediary on the eastern Cape frontier and in Cape Town and a traveler in Great Britain, Tzatzoe helped foster the merging of African and European worlds into a new South African reality. Yet, by the 1860's, despite his determined resistance, he was an oppressed subject of harsh British colonial rule. In this innovative, richly researched, and splendidly written biography, Roger S. Levine reclaims Tzatzoe's lost story and analyzes his contributions to, and experiences with, the turbulent colonial world to argue for the crucial role of Africans as agents of cultural and intellectual change.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Maps
- INTRODUCTION
- Kelso, Scotland, 1837
- Xhosaland, 1810
- Bethelsdorp, 1811-1815
- Makana's Kraal, 1816
- Kat River, 1816-1818
- Fish River Valley, 1822
- iQonce, 1825-1832
- Buffalo River, 1833-1835
- Queen Adelaide Province, 1835-1836
- Charles Darwin in Cape Town
- England, 1836
- Great Britain, 1836-1838
- TZATZOE IN KURUMAN
- King William's Town, 1838-1845
- British Kaffraria, 1845-1868
- Epilogue
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- "Published with assistance from the foundation established in memory of Amasa Stone Mather of the class of 1907, Yale College"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-46352-5
- 0-300-16859-4
- OCLC:
- 1024008806
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