The house of Phalo
Subtitle: a history of the Xhosa people in the days of their independence
By: J.B. Peires.
Series: Perspectives on Southern Africa ;; 32
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- History
Description: "In this first modern history of the Xhosa, J.B. Peires relates the story of one of the most numerous and important indigenous peoples in contemporary South Africa from their consolidation, through an era of cooperation and conflict with whites (whom the Xhosa regarded as uncivilized), to the frontier wars that eventuated in their present position as a subordinate group in the modern South African state"--Back cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [260]-275.
Includes index.