Imperial Networks : Creating Identities in Nineteenth-Century South Africa and Britain
Alan. Lester
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (270 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Imperial NetworksCreating identities in nineteenth-century South Africa and Britain; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Histories of the eastern Cape and postcolonial theory; Imperial networks; 2 Colonial projects and the eastern Cape; The Cape colonial frontier; British governmentality and the problem of the Cape frontier; The construction of humanitarian discourse; 3 British settlers and the colonisation of the Xhosa; Creating a settler identity; Maintaining settler discourse; 4 Queen Adelaide Province and the limits of colonial power. - A colonising governmentThe limits of colonial power; 5 Obtaining the 'due observance of justice': the apotheosis of the humanitarian imagination; The humanitarian imagination and the Aborigines Committee; The death of Hintsa and the Court of Enquiry; Official and settler counter-mobilisation: the beginnings; 6 Imperial contests and the conquest of the frontier; Humanitarian disillusionment; The rejection of `civilisation' in the eastern Cape; The discursive effects of global resistance; Metropolitan and colonial discourses of difference; 7 Epilogue and conclusion. - Epilogue: The eastern Cape and British Kaffraria in the mid-nineteenth centuryConcluding remarks: Imperial networks and colonial discourse; Notes; Index. - Imperial Networks investigates the discourses and practices of British colonialism. It reveals how British colonialism in the Eastern Cape region was informed by, and itself informed, imperial ideas and activities elsewhere, both in Britain and in other colonies.It examines:* the origins and development of the three interacting discourses of colonialism - official, humanitarian and settler* the contests, compromises and interplay between these discourses and their proponents* the analysis of these discourses in the light of a global humanitarian movement in th
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Colonization. History. Imperialism. Vis mer... Xhosa (African people) - History - 19th century.
Xhosa (African people). History & Archaeology Regions & Countries - Africa sør-afrika storbritannia kolonier kapp-provinsen 1800-tallet kolonialisme historie imperialisme xhosa identitet |
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| ISBN | 041519850X. - 0415259142
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