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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Legassick, Martin, author.

Ross, Robert, author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Legassick, Martin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Griquas--Missions--South Africa.

Griquas.

Sotho (African people)--Missions--South Africa.

Sotho (African people).

Tswana (African people)--Missions--South Africa.

Tswana (African people).

Griquas--History.

Missions--South Africa--History.

Missions.

South Africa--Politics and government--To 1836.

South Africa.

South Africa--History--To 1836.

Northern Cape (South Africa)--History.

Northern Cape (South Africa).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 394 p. ) 5 geneal. tables, 6 maps ;

Place of Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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 tradition" in South African historiography drew on the insights he had gained in writing this dissertation. It served to initiate the debate about the importance of the precolonial frontier situation in South Africa for the establishment of ideas of race, the development of racial prejudice and, implicitly, the creation of segregationist and apartheid systems. Today, the constructed histories of "Griqua" and other categories of indigeneity have re emerged in South Africa as influential tools of political mobilisation and claims on resources.

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.

Notes:

"This book publishes the dissertation by Martin Legassick, originally submitted to the University of California at Los Angeles in 1969"--T.p. verso. Dissertation entitled: The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the missionaries, 1780-1840 : the politics of a frontier zone.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Related Work:

Legassick, Martin. Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the missionaries, 1780-1840.

ISBN:

9783905758559

3905758555

OCLC:

908063416