Imperial Networks : Creating Identities in Nineteenth-Century South Africa and Britain

ISBN-13: 9780415198509 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 272 str.

Alan Lester;Lester Alan

Opis

This study investigates the discourses and practices of British colonialism. Focusing on the colonization of the Xhosa to the east of the 19th-century Cape Colony in South Africa, the book places this episode in the context of a much broader imperial network. The book reveals how British colonialism in the region was informed by, and itself informed, imperial ideas and activities elsewhere, both in Britain and in other colonies. Drawing on materialist South African historiography, postcolonial theory and geographical conceptions, the book examines: the origins and early 19th-century 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 the aftermath of the anti-slavery campaign; and the eventual colonization of the Xhosa and the construction of colonial settler identities.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Colonial projects and the eastern Cape; Chapter 3 British settlers and the colonisation of the Xhosa; Chapter 4 Queen Adelaide Province and the limits of colonial power; Chapter 5 Obtaining the ‘due observance of justice’; Chapter 6 Imperial contests and the conquest of the frontier; Chapter 7 Epilogue and conclusion;

O autorze

Alan Lester is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex. His previous publications include From Colonization to Democracy: a New Historical Geography of South Africa (1996) and South Africa Past, Present and Future: Gold at the End of the Rainbow? with E. Nel and T. Binns (2000).