A living man from Africa : Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa chief and missionary, and the making of nineteenth-century South Africa / / Roger S. Levine
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Levine Roger S
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| Titolo: |
A living man from Africa : Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa chief and missionary, and the making of nineteenth-century South Africa / / Roger S. Levine
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| Pubblicazione: | New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (1 online resource (xiii, 291 p., [16] p. of plates) ) : ill., maps |
| Disciplina: | 968.00496/39850092 |
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| Soggetto topico: | Xhosa (African people) - Kings and rulers |
| Missionaries - South Africa | |
| Christian biography - South Africa | |
| Social change - South Africa - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | South Africa History To 1836 |
| South Africa History 1836-1909 | |
| South Africa Colonization | |
| South Africa Ethnic relations History 19th century | |
| Note generali: | "Published with assistance from the foundation established in memory of Amasa Stone Mather of the class of 1907, Yale College"--T.p. verso. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Maps -- INTRODUCTION -- Kelso, Scotland, 1837 -- Xhosaland, 1810 -- Bethelsdorp, 1811-1815 -- Makana's Kraal, 1816 -- Kat River, 1816-1818 -- Fish River Valley, 1822 -- iQonce, 1825-1832 -- Buffalo River, 1833-1835 -- Queen Adelaide Province, 1835-1836 -- Charles Darwin in Cape Town -- England, 1836 -- Great Britain, 1836-1838 -- TZATZOE IN KURUMAN -- King William's Town, 1838-1845 -- British Kaffraria, 1845-1868 -- Epilogue -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change-one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary, chief, and cultural intermediary on the eastern Cape frontier and in Cape Town and a traveler in Great Britain, Tzatzoe helped foster the merging of African and European worlds into a new South African reality. Yet, by the 1860's, despite his determined resistance, he was an oppressed subject of harsh British colonial rule. In this innovative, richly researched, and splendidly written biography, Roger S. Levine reclaims Tzatzoe's lost story and analyzes his contributions to, and experiences with, the turbulent colonial world to argue for the crucial role of Africans as agents of cultural and intellectual change. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A living man from Africa |
| ISBN: | 1-299-46352-5 |
| 0-300-16859-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808404903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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