Chiefs and Bureaucrats in the Making of Empire: A Drama from the Transkei, South Africa, October 1880

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Journal Article Chiefs and Bureaucrats in the Making of Empire: A Drama from the Transkei, South Africa, October 1880 Get access Clifton Crais Clifton Crais Clifton Crais is a professor of history at Kenyon College. He received his PhD in 1988 from Johns Hopkins University. His research and writing have focused on colonialism and resistance in South Africa, slavery and emancipation, political culture and political movements, and the history of vulnerability and poverty. He is the author of White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-Industrial South Africa (1992), and The Politics of Evil (2002), editor of The Culture of Power in Southern Africa (2003), and co-editor with Nigel Worden of Breaking the Chains (2001). He is completing a book-length project on rural poverty and, with Pamela Scully, is co-authoring a biography of Sarah Baartman, more famously known as the “Hottentot Venus.” Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 108, Issue 4, October 2003, Pages 1034–1056, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/108.4.1034 Published: 01 October 2003