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An Age of Hubris is the first comprehensive overview of the impact of missionary enterprise on the Xhosa chiefdoms of South Africa in the first half of the nineteenth century, chronicling a world punctuated by war and millenarian eruptions, and the steady encroachment of settler land hunger and colonial hegemony. With it, Timothy Keegan contributes new approaches to Xhosa history and, most important, a new dimension to the much-trodden but sti...

An Age of Hubris is the first comprehensive overview of the impact of missionary enterprise on the Xhosa chiefdoms of South Africa in the first half of the nineteenth century, chronicling a world punctuated by war and millenarian eruptions, and the steady encroachment of settler land hunger and colonial hegemony. With it, Timothy Keegan contributes new approaches to Xhosa history and, most important, a new dimension to the much-trodden but sti...

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In this masterly work of synthesis and reinterpretation, TimothyKeegan looks anew at the relatively neglected period of South African history beforethe mineral age- in particular the years of British rule up to the 1850s- anddecisively establishes its importance in the shaping of South African society. Forwhereas a previous generation of historians saw the twentieth-century racial stateemerging from forces unleashed by the mineral revolution, ...