{"product_id":"an-age-of-hubris-timothy-keegan-9780813949178","title":"An Age of Hubris: Colonialism, Christianity, and the Xhosa in the Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Age of Hubris\u003c\/i\u003e is the first comprehensive overview of the impact of missionary enterprise on the Xhosa chiefdoms of South Africa in the first half of the nineteenth century, chronicling a world punctuated by war and millenarian eruptions, and the steady encroachment of settler land hunger and colonial hegemony. With it, Timothy Keegan contributes new approaches to Xhosa history and, most important, a new dimension to the much-trodden but still vital topic of the impact--cultural, social, and political--of missionary activity among African peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most significant historical works on the Xhosa have either become dated, foreground imperial-colonial history, or remain heavily theoretical in nature. In contrast, Keegan draws fruitfully on the rich Africanist comparative and anthropological literature now available, as well as extant primary sources, to foreground the Xhosa themselves in this crucial work. In so doing, he highlights the ways in which Africans utilized new ideas, resources, and practices to make sense of, react to, and resist the forces of colonial dispossession confronting them, emphasizing missionary frustration and African agency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy Keegan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813949173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813949178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.76d","brand":"Timothy Keegan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44076809683199,"sku":"9780813949178","price":39.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fbd3ab15-1812-4996-8a79-fba81490a96c.jpg?v=1685466917","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/an-age-of-hubris-timothy-keegan-9780813949178","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}