Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Prelude James Read and History 3
5. Introduction 7
6. The Lord Is Seen to Ride on the Whirlwind": Protestant Evangelicalism in the 1790s 25
7. Terms of Encounter: Graaff-Reinet, the Khoekhoe, and the South African LMS at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century 71
8. War, Conversion, and the Politics of Interpretation 111
9. Khoisan Uses of Christianity 155
10. The Rise and Fall of Bethelsdorp Radicalism under the British, 1806-17 197
11. The Political Uses of Africa Remade: The Passage of Ordinance 50 233
12. “On Probation As Free Citizens”: Poverty and Politics in the 1830s 259
13. Rethinking Liberalism 293
14. “Our Church for Ourselves” 311
15. Rebellion and Its Aftermath 345
16. Conclusions? 377
17. Notes 381
18. Bibliography 451
19. Index 491