Making Empire Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Imperial Rule in Nineteenth-Century Africa |
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| Author:
| Price, Richard |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-88968-1 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2008 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $116.00 |
Book Description:
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This book is the dramatic story of the construction of empire in Southern Africa in the nineteenth century. It charts how an imperial regime developed both in the minds of the colonizers and in the everyday practice of power and how the British imperial presence was shaped by the encounter with the Xhosa.
This book is the dramatic story of the construction of empire in Southern Africa in the nineteenth century. It charts how an imperial regime developed both in the minds of the colonizers and in the everyday practice of power and how the British imperial presence was shaped by the encounter with the Xhosa.