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Illustrations Maps and figures Abbreviations Acknowledgements Chronology Preface Part I. Times of Plenty, Times of Pain: 1. Shapes in a land: economy, ritual, and identity 2. People of another house: slavery, mimesis, and the frontier Part II. Colonial Paradoxes: 3. A departure: the will to power 4. The taste of freedom other men eat so sweet: the emancipations 5. The manor on the hill: British settlers in a New South Africa 6. Ambiguous frontiers: religion, trade and misunderstanding 7. Empire and the savages: capitalism, the state, and the image of the African 8. Beasts of prey 9. Of witchcraft, poles and old times that were past: the story continued Part III. Of the Conquerors and the Vanquished: 10. Empire and t he ancestors Notes Bibliography.