Blood ground
Subtitle: colonialism, missions, and the contest for Christianity in the Cape Colony and Britain, 1799-1853
By: Elizabeth Elbourne.
Series: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion.; 19
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 499
Subjects: London Missionary Society -- History -- 19th century; London Missionary Society -- Histoire -- 19e siècle; Khoikhoi (African people) -- History -- 19th century; Khoikhois (African people) -- Missions; Missions, British -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- History -- 19th century; Khoi-Khoi (Peuple d'Afrique) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle; Missions britanniques -- Afrique du Sud -- Le Cap (Province) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle; Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Politics and government -- 1795-1872; Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History -- 1795-1872; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa; Le Cap (Afrique du Sud : Province) -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1785-1872; Le Cap (Afrique du Sud : Province) -- Histoire -- 1795-1872; Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- Afrique
Description: "Elbourne shows that while the Khoekhoe used Christianity as a tool to combat aspects of colonialism, throughout the nineteenth century there were broad shifts in the relationship of missions to colonialism as the British missionary movement became less internationalist, more respectable, and more emblematic of the British imperial project. She argues that it is symptomatic of the ambiguities of this relationship that many Christian Khoekhoe ultimately rebelled against the South African colony.

Across the white settler empire missionaries brokered bargains - rights in exchange for cultural change, for example - that brought Aboriginal peoples within the aegis of empire but, ultimately, were only partially and ambiguously fulfilled."--BOOK JACKET.