Khoesan and Imperial Citizenship in Nineteenth Century South Africa

This volume explores the formative and expressive dynamics of Khoesan identity during a crucial period of incorporation as an underclass into Cape colonial society.

List of contents

1. Masters and Subjects: The British Occupations and Khoesan Subjecthood, 1795–1828 2. Subjecthood in Contest: The Demise and Incorporation of San, 1806–1830 3. Imperial Citizenship and Nationalism: Civil Rights, Political Consciousness, and the Deployment of Loyalty as Resistance, 1828–1834 4. Competing Loyalties: Masters, Missionaries, and the Monarch, 1830–1850 5. From Resistance to Rebellion: Khoesan Loyalism and Its Discontents, 1849–1858

About the author

Jared McDonald is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Assistant Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities at the University of the Free State, South Africa. His research interests include the history of the London Missionary Society in southern Africa, settler-colonialism, and histories of children as victims of genocide. He has published on these themes in Historia (2022) and the Journal of Genocide Research (2016).

Summary

This volume explores the formative and expressive dynamics of Khoesan identity during a crucial period of incorporation as an underclass into Cape colonial society.

Product details

• Authors: Jared McDonald
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032320212
• ISBN: 978-1-032-32021-2
• No. of pages: 226
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Africa / South / General, General & world history, Colonialism & imperialism, Southern Africa, Legal History, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, African History, General and world history, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards