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Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth-Century South Africa and Britain
Contributor(s): Lester, Alan (Author)
ISBN: 0415259142     ISBN-13: 9780415259149
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $46.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2001
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Annotation: Focusing on the colonization of the Xhosa in 19th-century South Africa, this work reveals the way in which British colonialism in the region was informed by imperial ideas and activities. The book introduces students to key debates in the historiography of this period, as well as the materialist and postcolonial constructions of the past.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa
- History | Europe - Great Britain - General
Dewey: 968.700
LCCN: 2001018726
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.36" W x 9.44" (0.90 lbs) 270 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Cultural Region - Southern Africa
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
 
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Publisher Description:

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 the aftermath of the antislavery campaign
* the eventual colonisation of the Eastern cape and the construction of colonial settler identities.

For any student or resarcher of this major aspect of history, this will be a staple part of their reading diet.