The Testing Grounds of Modern Empire: The Making of Colonial Racial Order in the American Ohio Country and the South African Eastern Cape, 1770s-1850s
by Strobel, ChristophFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-12-01
Publisher(s): Peter Lang Pub Inc
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The Testing Grounds of Modern Empire examines the transformation and the gradual creation of colonial racial order on an American and a South African frontier, respectively. This study focuses on the Ohio Country (a region including parts of presen
Table of Contents
| Maps | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Establishment of Two Colonial Regions | |
| Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans: A Comparative Overview of the Pre-Colonial and Early Colonial History of the Ohio Country and the Eastern Cape | p. 13 |
| White Colonizers and the Making of Colonial Racial Orders | |
| Conquest, "Civilization," and Dispossession: The Transformation of the Ohio Country | p. 39 |
| Humanitarians, Settlers, and the State: The Transformation ofthe Eastern Cape | p. 61 |
| Native Americans, Africans, and the Making of Colonial Racial Orders | |
| The Ohio Indians' Revolution: A Struggle for Sovereignty and Independence | p. 91 |
| "Ihis Land is Our Land": Africans in the Eastern Cape and their Struggle for Independence and Sovereignty | p. 117 |
| Conclusion: Comparing the Entrenchment of Two Colonial Racial Orders | p. 143 |
| Bibliography | p. 179 |
| Index | p. 191 |
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