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Luka Jantjie
Kevin Shillington
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Description for Luka Jantjie
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBJH; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 165 x 30. Weight in Grams: 625.
Luka Jantjie is today a largely forgotten hero of resistance to British colonialism. His place in South African history has tended to be overshadowed by events elsewhere in the region. This book attempts to redress the balance by recording his remarkable story. In 1870, at the beginning of the Kimberley diamond mining boom that was to transform southern Africa, Luka Jantjie was the first independent African ruler to lose his land to the new colonialists, who promptly annexed the diamond fields. His outspoken stand against the hypocrisy of colonial 'justice' earned him the epithet: "a wild fellow who hates the ... Read more
Luka Jantjie is today a largely forgotten hero of resistance to British colonialism. His place in South African history has tended to be overshadowed by events elsewhere in the region. This book attempts to redress the balance by recording his remarkable story. In 1870, at the beginning of the Kimberley diamond mining boom that was to transform southern Africa, Luka Jantjie was the first independent African ruler to lose his land to the new colonialists, who promptly annexed the diamond fields. His outspoken stand against the hypocrisy of colonial 'justice' earned him the epithet: "a wild fellow who hates the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230338531
SKU
V9780230338531
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About Kevin Shillington
Kevin Shillington is the author of a number of historical and contemporary works including The Colonisation of the Southern Tswana 1870-1900 (1985), Ghana and the Rawlings Factor (1992), Causes and Consequences of Independence in Africa (1997), and History of Africa (3rd edition 2005). He is editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of African History (2005).
Reviews for Luka Jantjie
"Shillington's research shines as he offers the reader a sense of Jantjie grappling with the challenges facing him and his people. Wonderfully researched and lavishly illustrated." - The Journal of African History "Luka Jantjie . . . is a welcome addition to a slim historiography by a regional expert. A lively, vivid, and wonderfully written commemorative text. ... Read more