Alan Lester is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex. His previous publications include From Colonization to Democracy: a New Historical Geography of South Africa (1996) and South Africa Past, Present and Future: Gold at the End of the Rainbow? with E. Nel and T. Binns (2000).

• Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Colonial projects and the eastern Cape; Chapter 3 British settlers and the colonisation of the Xhosa; Chapter 4 Queen Adelaide Province and the limits of colonial power; Chapter 5 Obtaining the ‘due observance of justice’; Chapter 6 Imperial contests and the conquest of the frontier; Chapter 7 Epilogue and conclusion;

Alan Lester is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex. His previous publications include From Colonization to Democracy: a New Historical Geography of South Africa (1996) and South Africa Past, Present and Future: Gold at the End of the Rainbow? with E. Nel and T. Binns (2000).

• Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Colonial projects and the eastern Cape; Chapter 3 British settlers and the colonisation of the Xhosa; Chapter 4 Queen Adelaide Province and the limits of colonial power; Chapter 5 Obtaining the ‘due observance of justice’; Chapter 6 Imperial contests and the conquest of the frontier; Chapter 7 Epilogue and conclusion;

Alan Lester is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex. His previous publications include From Colonization to Democracy: a New Historical Geography of South Africa (1996) and South Africa Past, Present and Future: Gold at the End of the Rainbow? with E. Nel and T. Binns (2000).

• Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Colonial projects and the eastern Cape; Chapter 3 British settlers and the colonisation of the Xhosa; Chapter 4 Queen Adelaide Province and the limits of colonial power; Chapter 5 Obtaining the ‘due observance of justice’; Chapter 6 Imperial contests and the conquest of the frontier; Chapter 7 Epilogue and conclusion;