Tim Keegan

Dr Philip's Empire (eBook, PDF)

One Man's Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century South Africa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Dr John Philip towered over nineteenth-century South African history, championing the rights of indigenous people against the growing power of white supremacy, but today he is largely forgotten or misremembered. From the time he arrived in South Africa as superintendent of the London Missionary Society in 1819, Philip played a major role in the idealist and humanitarian campaigns of the day, fighting for the emancipation of slaves, protecting the Khoi against injustice, and opposing the dispossession of the Xhosa in the Eastern Cape. A fascinating picture of South Africa and the British Empire during a time of great change, Dr Philip's Empire documents Philip's encounters with Dutch colonists, English settlers and indigenous South Africans, his never-ending battles with fellow missionaries and colonial authorities, and his lobbying among the powerful for indigenous people's civil rights. A controversial and influential figure, Philip was considered an interfering radical subversive by believers in white superiority, but he has been labelled a condescending, hypocritical 'white liberal' in a more modern age. This book seeks to revive him from these judgements and to recover the real man and his noble but doomed struggles for justice in the context of his times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: David & Charles
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781770227125
• Artikelnr.: 44963580

Autorenporträt

Tim Keegan is a graduate of the University of Cape Town and obtained his PhD in African history from the University of London. After living and working in the UK and the USA, he spent five years in the African Studies Institute at Wits University before going to the History Department at the University of the Western Cape. In the mid-nineties he left to concentrate on research and writing. He has published several books including Rural Transformations in Industrialising South Africa, Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Order, Moravians in the Eastern Cape and the novels Waiting for the Moon, Tromp's Last Stand and My Life with the Duvals. He has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa region) and the Caine Prize for African Fiction.