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| Other uniform titles: | Ross, Robert,
Legassick, Martin. Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the missionaries, 1780-1840.
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| ISBN: | 9783905758559
3905758555
3905758148
9783905758146
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| 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 tradi
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| Other form: | Print version: Legassick, Martin. Politics of a South African frontier : the Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the missionaries, 1780-1840. Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, ©2010 xxii, 394 pages 9783905758146
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