Author: William Harvey BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
On the South African Frontier
Author: William Harvey BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Zulu Warriors
Author: John LabandPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300206194
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the British embarked on a concerted series of campaigns in South Africa. Within three years they waged five wars against African states with the intent of destroying their military might and political independence and unifying southern Africa under imperial control. This is the first work to tell the story of this cluster of conflicts as a single whole and to narrate the experiences of the militarily outmatched African societies. Deftly fusing the widely differing European and African perspectives on events, John Laband details the fateful decisions of individual leaders and generals and explores why many Africans chose to join the British and colonial forces. The Xhosa, Zulu, and other African military cultures are brought to vivid life, showing how varying notions of warrior honor and manliness influenced the outcomes for African fighting men and their societies.
Tales of the African Frontier
Author: John A. HunterPublisher:
ISBN: 9781571572424
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The colorful characters of East Africa's early colonial period walk across the pages of this powerful book by John Hunter and Dan Mannix. Meet Tippu Tib, the greatest of all slave traders and the man who owned the slave responsible for killing the elephant with the biggest tusks ever recorded. Read how Ewart Grogan walked from the Cape to Cairo and how Joseph Thompson faced not only the ferocious Masai but also incredible hardships during his explorations into the interior of East Africa. Find out how John Boyes, elephant poacher extraordinaire, declared himself king of the Wa-Kikuyu and how Robert Foran, the notorious Lado Enclave ivory poacher, cheated Belgian and British authorities alike.
On the South African Frontier
Author: William Harvey BrownPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781357969844
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Politics of a South African Frontier
Author: Chatfield LegassickPublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 3905758555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
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.
On the South African Frontier the Adventures and Observations of an American in Mashonaland and Matabeleland (Classic Reprint)
Author: William Harvey BrownPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365171324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Excerpt from On the South African Frontier the Adventures and Observations of an American in Mashonaland and Matabeleland Rhodesian progress that not a few of these facts will be to them, no doubt, commonplace knowledge. If from this recital, embracing, as it does, the vari ous epochs of the country's development from its founding to the present day, Englishmen are able to learn anything which may accrue to a better under standing of the needs and possibilities of Rhodesia, which next to the land of my nativity is dearer to me than all other parts of the earth, I shall feel doubly compensated for my efforts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Luka Jantjie
Author: Kevin ShillingtonPublisher: Aldridge
ISBN: 9780952065128
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Luka Jantjie is today a largely forgotten hero of resistance to British colonialism. His place in South African history has tended to be overshadowed by events elsewhere in the region. This book attempts to redress the balance by recording his remarkable story. In 1870, at the beginning of the Kimberley diamond mining boom that was to transform southern Africa, Luka Jantjie was the first independent African ruler to lose his land to the new colonialists, who promptly annexed the diamond fields. His outspoken stand against the hypocrisy of colonial 'justice' earned him the epithet: "a wild fellow who hates the English". As the son of an early Christian convert, Luka was brought up to respect peace and non-violence; his boycott of rural trading stores in the early 1890s was perhaps the earliest use of non-violent resistance in colonial South Africa. His steady refusal to bow to colonial demands of subservience intensified the enmity of local colonists determined to 'teach him a lesson'. As many of his people succumbed to colonial pressures, Luka was twice forced to take up arms to defend himself and his people from colonial attacks. His life ended in a dramatic and heroic last stand in the ancestral sanctuary of the Langeberg mountain range; its tragic consequences stretched far into the next century.
On the South African Frontier; the Adventures and Observations of an American in Mashonaland and Matabeleland
Author: William Harvey BrownPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230269269
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIX RHODESIA TO-DAY The Transformation of a Wilderness--Sickness, Pestilence, and Massacre, Factors in the Settlement of a New Country --The Advent of Women and Children--Pastimes Dear to the British Heart--Political Agitation and Mr. Rhodes's Visit--Government of Rhodesia--Central Position--GoldProducing Capabilities--Agricultural Resources and the Land Question--Coal and Iron, one Measure of the Wealth of a State--Rhodesia an Attractive Field for Commercial Enterprise--England as a Colonizing Power--The Dark Continent the Future Scene of a Prominent Part of the World's Drama. That a wilderness in the heart of Africa should in less than one decade be supplanted by all the conveniences of civilization, is one of the marvels of our progressive age. In the year 1890 the British South Africa Company Pioneers journeyed by ox-wagon nearly one thousand miles beyond the frontier settlements of the Cape Colony, to a land possessed solely by wild beasts and menacing savages. To-day we find the sturdy Anglo-Saxon, with his language, laws, customs, and " modern improvements," firmly established in that region. In substantial towns, which form the centres of large agricultural and mining districts, we find churches, schools, libraries, clubs, the Salvation Army, daily and weekly newspapers, courts of justice, jails--in short, all the components of modern civilization. The telegraph-wire has long since placed the inhabitants of that country in quick communication with every part of the civilized world, while railways have supplanted ox-teams and native porters as a means of transportation to the Atlantic and Indian oceans. The present state of progress has not been attained without the sufferings and hardships in the way of sickness, ...
Frontiers
Author: Noel MostertPublisher:
ISBN: 9780224081641
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Frontier
Author: Sue KrigePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description