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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782073303321

Autore

Elbourne Elizabeth

Titolo

Blood ground [[electronic resource] ] : colonialism, missions, and the contest for Christianity in the Cape Colony and Britain, 1799-1853 / / Elizabeth Elbourne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002

ISBN

1-282-85946-3

9786612859465

0-7735-6945-6

Descrizione fisica

499 p. , [20] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; ; 24 cm

Collana

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; ; 19

Disciplina

968.7/004961

Soggetti

Khoikhoi (African people) - History - 19th century

Khoikhoi (African people) - Missions

Missions, British - South Africa - Cape of Good Hope - History - 19th century

Khoi-Khoi (Peuple d'Afrique) - Histoire - 19e siècle

Missions britanniques - Afrique du Sud - Le Cap (Province) - Histoire - 19e siècle

Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) Politics and government 1795-1872

Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) History 1795-1872

Great Britain Colonies Africa

Le Cap (Afrique du Sud : Province) Politique et gouvernement 1785-1872

Le Cap (Afrique du Sud : Province) Histoire 1795-1872

Grande-Bretagne Colonies Afrique

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references: p. [451]-489.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude James Read and History -- Introduction -- The Lord Is Seen to Ride on the Whirlwind": Protestant Evangelicalism in the 1790s -- Terms of Encounter: Graaff-Reinet, the Khoekhoe, and the South African LMS at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century -- War, Conversion, and the Politics of Interpretation -- Khoisan Uses of Christianity -- The Rise and Fall of Bethelsdorp Radicalism under the British, 1806-17 -- The Political Uses



of Africa Remade: The Passage of Ordinance 50 -- “On Probation As Free Citizens”: Poverty and Politics in the 1830s -- Rethinking Liberalism -- “Our Church for Ourselves” -- Rebellion and Its Aftermath -- Conclusions? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Blood Ground traces the transition from religion to race as the basis for policing the boundaries of the "white" community. Elbourne suggests broader shifts in the relationship of missions to colonialism B as the British movement became less internationalist, more respectable, and more emblematic of the British imperial project B and shows that it is symptomatic that many Christian Khoekhoe ultimately rebelled against the colony. Missionaries across the white settler empire brokered bargains B rights in exchange for cultural change, for example B that brought Aboriginal peoples within the aegis of empire but, ultimately, were only partially and ambiguously fulfilled.