The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856-7"Anyone who thinks that South Africa's problems began with the Afrikaners and apartheid should read this book." —Richard Dowden, The Independent |
Contents
A Surprise for Sir Harry Smith | 4 |
Goliath | 30 |
Crooked Like a Snake | 45 |
Cutting down the Chiefs | 60 |
Nongqawuse | 78 |
The First Disappointment | 94 |
Grey Intervenes | 108 |
The Central Beliefs of the Xhosa CattleKilling | 122 |
Transportation | 221 |
The Clear Sweep | 226 |
The End of Mhala | 232 |
Kaffir Relief | 241 |
No Bread for the Idle | 245 |
Enter the Kaffir Relief Committee | 250 |
Private Benevolence Is Not Requisite | 253 |
The True Charity of Governor Grey | 261 |
To the Bitter End | 145 |
The Agony of the Unbelievers | 158 |
The Hard and the Soft | 165 |
A Disciple of Colonel Eyre | 187 |
Mhala Gets a Message | 193 |
Bulungwa Ploughs | 196 |
Nonkosi Speaks | 201 |
The Battle Is Joined | 203 |
Gawler Triumphant | 209 |
The Chiefs Plot | 218 |
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The Dead will Arise: Nongqawuse and the great Xhosa cattle killing 1856-7 Jeff Peires Limited preview - 2013 |