Elizabeth Eldredge Power in Colonial Africa sku-6109041

Elizabeth Eldredge's hardcover Power in Colonial Africa: Conflict and Discourse in Lesotho, 1870-1960 is listed under African History Books as sku-6109041. Using archival and oral sources, visual signs and public and private actions, Eldredge examines how the BaSotho exercised influence under colonial rule.

The BaSotho consolidated a kingdom from the 1820s to the 1850s, largely through peaceful means, and resisted colonial forces in the Gun War of 1880-1881. Under Cape Colony and British rule from 1868 to 1966, they sought to retain authority over internal affairs through resistance, negotiation, compromise and other forms of expression.

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