John Laband 
Land Wars [EPUB ebook] 
The Dispossession of the Khoisan and AmaXhosa in the Cape Colony

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Perhaps the most explosive issue in South Africa today is the question of land ownership. The central theme in this countrys colonial history is the dispossession of indigenous African societies by white settlers, and current calls for land restitution are based on this loss. Yet popular knowledge of the actual process by which Africans were deprived of their land is remarkably sketchy. This book recounts an important part of this history, describing how the Khoisan and Xhosa people were dispossessed and subjugated from the time that Europeans first arrived until the end of the Cape Frontier Wars (17791878). The Land Wars traces the unfolding hostilities involving Dutch and British colonial authorities, trekboers and settlers, and the San, Khoikhoin, Xhosa, Mfengu and Thembu people as well as conflicts within these groups. In the process it describes the loss of land by Africans to successive waves of white settlers as the colonial frontier inexorably advanced. The book does not shy away from controversial issues such as war atrocities committed by both sides, or the expedient decision of some of the indigenous peoples to fight alongside the colonisers rather than against them. The Land Wars is an epic story, featuring well-known figures such as Ngqika, Lord Charles Somerset and his son, Henry, Andries Stockenstrm, Hintsa, Harry Smith, Sandile, Maqoma, Bartle Frere and Sarhili, and events such as the arrival of the 1820 Settlers and the Xhosa cattle-killing. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand South Africas past and present.

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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 364 ● ISBN 9781776095001 ● 出版者 Penguin Random House South Africa ● 发布时间 2020 ● 下载 3 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 7532077 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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