This book provides a detailed narrative of the Kat River Settlement in the Eastern Cape of South Africa during the nineteenth century. The settlement was created by the British to use the Khoekhoe as a living barrier between the Cape Colony and the amaXhosa. It was fought over with some regularity, however, and finally broken up after some of the Khoekhoe joined the amaXhosa in their war against the colony. Nevertheless, in the time that the settlement existed, the Khoekhoe both created a fertile landscape in the valley and developed a political theology of great importance for the evolution of South Africa. They were also the subjects of - and participants in - the major debates leading to the introduction of a liberal constitution for the Cape in 1853. The history of the settlement is thus crucial in understanding the development of both colonial racism and the creation of the colony's non-racial democracy.

Product Description: This volume brings together a group of leading international scholars to discuss how US-China-EU relations will shape the future of international politics. Arguing that these three powers will play a key role in establishing and managing a new world order, the contributors examine how a future global order is developed by the interaction of these leading actors in the international system...read more

Product Description: Contents include: How They Struck a Contemporary, The Quality of George Meredith, Life in the Fallacious Model, Life the Disciple, Life the Plagiarist, The Indispensable East, The Influence of the Impressionists on Climate, An Exposure to Naturalism, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, Wainewright at Hobart Town, Cardinal Newman and the Autobiographers, Robert Browning, The Two Supreme and Highest Arts, The Secrets of Immortality, The Critic and his Material, Dante the Living Guide, The Limitations of Genius, Wanted A New Background, Without Frontiers, The Poetry of Archaeology, The Art of Archaeology, Herod Suppliant, The Tetrarch's Remorse, The Tetrarch's Treasure, Salome anticipates Dr...read more

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Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more