Indirect rule in South Africa tradition, modernity, and the costuming of political power
Indirect rule - the British colonial policy of employing indigenous tribal chiefs as political intermediaries - has typically been understood by scholars as little more than an expedient solution to imperial personnel shortages. A reexamination of the history of indirect rule in South Africa reveals...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Suffolk
Boydell & Brewer
2008
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Indirect rule
- From native administration to separate development
- Proxy forces
- Tradition and modernity in the fall of apartheid
- Chiefs in the new South Africa
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index