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The Ama-Xosa

By: John Henderson Soga

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The Ama-Xosa

By: John Henderson Soga

One of the first studies of the Xhosa as distinct from other tribal communities in South Africa, published in 1932.

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1108066844

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The South-Eastern Bantu

By: John Henderson Soga

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The South-Eastern Bantu

By: John Henderson Soga

A 1930 study of the history, traditions and tribal lives of the Xhosa people, offering a unique indigenous perspective.

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1108066828

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The South-Eastern Bantu

By: John Henderson Soga

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A 1930 study of the history, traditions and tribal lives of the Xhosa people, offering a unique indigenous perspective.

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The Ama-Xosa

By: John Henderson Soga

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The Ama-Xosa

By: John Henderson Soga

One of the first studies of the Xhosa as distinct from other tribal communities in South Africa, published in 1932.

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Zulu Warriors

The Battle for the South African Frontier

By: John Laband

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Zulu Warriors

The Battle for the South African Frontier

By: John Laband

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.

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Yale University Press

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0300206194

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9780300206197

The Land Wars

The Dispossession of the Khoisan and AmaXhosa in the Cape Colony

By: John Laband

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The Land Wars

The Dispossession of the Khoisan and AmaXhosa in the Cape Colony

By: John Laband

Perhaps the most explosive issue in South Africa today is the question of land ownership. The central theme in this country’s colonial history is the dispossession of indigenous African societies by white settlers, and current calls for land restitution are based on this loss. Yet popular knowledge of the actual process by which Africans were deprived of their land is remarkably sketchy. This book recounts an important part of this history, describing how the Khoisan and Xhosa people were dispossessed and subjugated from the time that Europeans first arrived until the end of the Cape Frontier Wars (1779–1878). The Land Wars traces the unfolding hostilities involving Dutch and British colonial authorities, trekboers and settlers, and the San, Khoikhoin, Xhosa, Mfengu and Thembu people – as well as conflicts within these groups. In the process it describes the loss of land by Africans to successive waves of white settlers as the colonial frontier inexorably advanced. The book does not shy away from controversial issues such as war atrocities committed by both sides, or the expedient decision of some of the indigenous peoples to fight alongside the colonisers rather than against them. The Land Wars is an epic story, featuring well-known figures such as Ngqika, Lord Charles Somerset and his son, Henry, Andries Stockenström, Hintsa, Harry Smith, Sandile, Maqoma, Bartle Frere and Sarhili, and events such as the arrival of the 1820 Settlers and the Xhosa cattle-killing. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand South Africa’s past and present.

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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1776095006

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9781776095001

Honour in African History

By: John Iliffe

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Honour in African History

By: John Iliffe

This is the first published account of the role played by ideas of honour in African history from the fourteenth century to the present day. It argues that appreciation of these ideas is essential to an understanding of past and present African behaviour. Before European conquest, many African men cultivated heroic honour, others admired the civic virtues of the patriarchal householder, and women honoured one another for industry, endurance, and devotion to their families. These values both conflicted and blended with Islamic and Christian teachings. Colonial conquest fragmented heroic cultures, but inherited ideas of honour found new expression in regimental loyalty, respectability, professionalism, working-class masculinity, the changing gender relationships of the colonial order, and the nationalist movements which overthrew that order. Today, the same inherited notions obstruct democracy, inspire resistance to tyranny, and motivate the defence of dignity in the face of AIDS.

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436

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Cambridge University Press

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0521546850

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9780521546850

The Scots in South Africa

Ethnicity, identity, gender and race, 1772–1914

By: John M. MacKenzie

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The Scots in South Africa

Ethnicity, identity, gender and race, 1772–1914

By: John M. MacKenzie

The description of South Africa as a 'rainbow nation' has always been taken to embrace the black, brown and white peoples who constitute its population. But each of these groups can be sub-divided and in the white case, the Scots have made one of the most distinctive contributions to the country's history. Now available in paperback, this book is a full-length study of their role from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. It highlights the interaction of Scots with African peoples, the manner in which missions and schools were credited with producing 'Black Scotsmen' and the ways in which they pursued many distinctive policies. It also deals with the inter-weaving of issues of gender, class and race as well as with the means by which Scots clung to their ethnicity through founding various social and cultural societies. This book offers a major contribution to both Scottish and South African history and in the process illuminates a significant field of the Scottish Diaspora that has so far received little attention.

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260

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Manchester University Press

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1847796893

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9781847796899

Reception, Appropriation, Recollection

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

By: International John Bunyan Society. Conference

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Reception, Appropriation, Recollection

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

By: International John Bunyan Society. Conference

Papers delivered at the fourth triennial conference of the International John Bunyan Society held at Bedford, 1-5 September 2004"--Acknowledgements.

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Peter Lang

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3039107208

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9783039107209

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