The Rise And Fall Of The South African Peasantry

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With a Preface reviewing some of the debates prompted by the earlier edition of this book.

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Genre : History
Author : Colin Bundy
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
Release : 1988
File : 304 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780852550472


The Rise And Fall Of The South African Peasantry

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Genre : Agriculture
Author : Jack Lewis
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Release : 1983
File : 62 Pages
ISBN-13 : IND:39000000230438


Poverty War And Violence In South Africa

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Poverty and violence are issues of global importance. In Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa, Clifton Crais explores the relationship between colonial conquest and the making of South Africa's rural poor. Based on a wealth of archival sources, this detailed history changes our understanding of the origins of the gut-wrenching poverty that characterizes rural areas today. Crais shifts attention away from general models of economic change and focuses on the enduring implications of violence in shaping South Africa's past and present. Crais details the devastation wrought by European forces and their African auxiliaries. Their violence led to wanton bloodshed, large-scale destruction of property, and famine. Crais explores how the survivors struggled to remake their lives, including the adoption of new crops, and the world of inequality and vulnerability colonial violence bequeathed. He concludes with a discussion of contemporary challenges and the threats to democracy in South Africa.

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Genre : History
Author : Clifton Crais
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2011-09-19
File : 199 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781139503563


Colonial Survey And Native Landscapes In Rural South Africa 1850 1913

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In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913, Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The precision of surveyors and other colonial technicians lent these enterprises an illusion of irreproachable objectivity and authority, even though the reality was far messier. Using a wide range of archival and printed materials from survey departments, repositories, and libraries, the author presents two distinct episodes of struggle over lands and livelihoods, one from the Eastern Cape and one from the former northern Transvaal. These cases expose the contingencies, contests, and negotiations that fundamentally shaped these changing South African landscapes.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Lindsay F. Braun
Publisher : BRILL
Release : 2014-10-16
File : 426 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789004282292


Land Liberation And Compromise In Southern Africa

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This book analyzes the origins of the crisis in Zimbabwe and why it has had such a profound impact on both the land issue and democratic politics in the Southern African region. In doing so, it contributes to the present debates around Mugabe, neo-imperialism and the stability in the region.

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Genre : History
Author : C. Alden
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2009-10-29
File : 271 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780230250970


Historical Dictionary Of South Africa

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As the most influential and powerful country on the entire continent of Africa, an understanding of South Africa’s past and its present trends is crucial in appreciating where South Africans are going to, and from where they have come. South Africa changed dramatically in 1994 when apartheid was dismantled, and it became a democratic state. Since 2000, when the previous edition appeared, further big changes occurred, with the rise of new political leaders and of a new black middle class. There were also serious problems in governance, in public health, and the economy, but with a remarkable popular resilience too. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of South Africa contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about South Africa.

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Genre : History
Author : Christopher Saunders
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release : 2020-12-15
File : 567 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781538130261


Collective Violence And The Agrarian Origins Of South African Apartheid 1900 1948

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This book examines violence against the rural African population and Africans in general before apartheid became the justification for the existence of the South African state.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : John Higginson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2014-11-24
File : 411 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781107046481


A Common Hunger

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The impact of colonial dispossession and the subsequent social and political ramifications places a unique burden on governments having to establish equitable means of addressing previous injustices. This book considers the efforts by both Canada and South Africa to reconcile the damage left by colonial expansion, in part, looking back with a critical eye, but also pointing the way towards a solution that will satisfy the common need for human dignity

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Genre : History
Author : Joan G. Fairweather
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Release : 2006
File : 286 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781552381922


A History Of Christianity In Africa

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This unprecedented work is the first one-volume study of the history of Christianity in Africa. Written by Elizabeth Isichei, a leading scholar in this field, A History of Christianity in Africa examines the origins and development of Christianity in Africa from the early story of Egyptian Christianity to the spectacular growth, vitality, and diversity of the churches in Africa today. Isichei opens with the brilliance of Christianity in Africa in antiquity and shows how Christian Egypt and North Africa produced some of the most influential intellects of the time. She then discusses the churches founded in the wake of early contacts with Europe, from the late fifteenth century on, and the unbroken Christian witness of Coptic Egypt and of Ethiopia. Isichei also examines the different types of Christianity in modern Africa and shows how social factors have influenced its development and expression. With the explosive growth of Christianity now taking place in Africa and the increasingly recognized significance of African Christianity, this much-needed book fills the void in scholarly works on that continent's Christian past, also foreshadowing Christian Africa's influential future.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Elizabeth Isichei
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release : 1995-02-22
File : 432 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781467420815


An Economic History Of South Africa

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This book examines five hundred years of South African economic history.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : C. H. Feinstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2005-06-23
File : 330 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521850916