Making empire : colonial encounters and the creation of imperial rule in nineteenth-century Africa

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Making empire : colonial encounters and the creation of imperial rule in nineteenth-century Africa

Richard Price

Cambridge University Press, 2008

  • : pbk
  • : hardcover

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Making empire : colonial encounters and the creation of imperial rule in 19th-century Africa

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Includes index

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This is the dramatic story of the colonial encounter and the construction of empire in Southern Africa in the nineteenth century. What did the British make of the Xhosa and how did they make sense of their politics and culture? How did the British establish and then explain their dominion, especially when it ran counter to the cultural values they believed themselves to represent? In this book, Richard Price answers these questions by looking at the ways in which individual missionaries, officials and politicians interacted with the Xhosa. He describes how those encounters changed and shaped the culture of imperial rule in Southern Africa. He 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 entangled in and shaped by the encounter with the Xhosa from the very moment of their first meeting.

目次

  • Preface: intentions and purposes
  • 1. Encounters in empire
  • 2. The making of missionary culture
  • 3. Observation, engagement and optimism
  • 4. Cultural encounters: the destabilization of missionary culture
  • 5. Missionaries encounter the Chiefs
  • 6. The closing of the missionary mind
  • 7. Creating colonial knowledge
  • 8. Meetings, ceremonies and display
  • 9. Empire as democracy
  • 10. Empire and liberalism
  • 11. The destruction of the Xhosa Chiefs
  • 12. The trials of the Chiefs
  • 13. Postscript: endings and beginnings.

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