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Informationen zum Autor Robert Ross received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1974 and has worked since then at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He has written several books, including A Concise History of South Africa and Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony: A Tragedy of Manners, both published by Cambridge University Press. He is also the editor, with Anne Kelk Mager and Bill Nasson, of the two-volume series The Cambridge History of South Africa. Klappentext This book provides a detailed narrative of the Kat River Settlement in the Eastern Cape of South Africa during the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung This is the detailed narrative of the Kat River Settlement! located on the border between the Cape Colony and the amaXhosa in the Eastern Cape of South Africa during the nineteenth century. The settlement created a fertile landscape and developed a political theology of great political and racial importance to the evolution of the Cape and South Africa as a whole. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The valley before the settlement; 2. Water and land: the making of the settlement and of the landscape; 3. Kat River politics: the church, panic and vagrancy; 4. The amaXhosa and the War of 1835; 5. The first reconstruction; 6. AmaMfengu, Hermanus Matroos and the War of the Axe; 7. The assault on the settlement; 8. Rebellion; 9. The aftermath; 10. Conclusion.
