Command or Consensus. The Development of Transkeian Local Government

8vo; original boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. xii + (iv) + 240, incl. index; map; tables. Dustwrapper a little rubbed and sunned; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper; bottom edges of boards very slightly shelf-rubbed; trace of foxing to endpapers. Very good condition. "The main focus is upon the status and function of the location headman in a structure that included magistrate, chief, district councillors and people; and on the conflicts inherent in changing from a traditional system of rule by consensus to one of rule by bureaucratic command. The analysis is made at three stages, the annexation political systems, the Direct Rule system (1894-1955) and the Bantu Authority system. This research is amplified and made vivid by detailed and often lively case histories showing how headmen and others in authority have dealt with situations requiring their arbitration.".