Landscape of conquest: Frontier water alienation and Khoikhoi strategies of survival 1652-1780.

Provides a geo-political perspective on how and why European colonists and their slaves displaced the Khoisan people from their lands. Analysis of strengths of settlers and indigenous peoples on the ground in frontier conditions; People's relationship to water and land; Europeans' disruptions of Khoisan patterns of life and destruction of their traditional societies.