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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Argiefjaarboek vir Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis
Author: Argief-Jaarboek vir Suid-Afrikaanse Geskiedenis
Author: The Griqua Past and the Limits of South African History, 1902-1994
Author: Edward CavanaghPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 3034307780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
The Griqua people are commonly misunderstood. Today, they do not figure in the South African imagination as other peoples do, nor have they for over a century. This book argues that their comparative invisibility is a result of their place in the national narrative. In this revisionist analysis of South African historiography, the author analyses over a century's worth of historical studies and identifies a number of narrative frameworks that have proven resilient to change over this time. The Griqua, in particular, have fared poorly compared to other peoples. They appear in, and disappear from, this body of work in a number of consistent ways, almost as though scholars have avoided re-imagining their history in ways relevant to the present. This book questions why that might be the case.
Slavery in Dutch South Africa
Author: Nigel WordenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521258758
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This 1985 comprehensive study analyses slavery in early colonial South Africa under the Dutch East India Company (1652-1795). Based on archival research in Britain, the Netherlands and South Africa, it examines the nature of Cape slavery with reference to the literature on other slave societies.
Trials of Slavery
Author: Nigel WordenPublisher: Van Riebeeck Society, The
ISBN: 9780958452236
Category : Cape of Good Hope
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
The Politics of a South African Frontier
Author: Martin Chatfield LegassickPublisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN: 3905758148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
This book publishes Martin Legassick's influential doctoral thesis on the preindustrial South African frontier zone of Transorangia. The impressive formation of the Griqua states in the first half of the nineteenth century outside the borders of the Cape Colony and their relations with Sotho-Tswana polities, frontiersmen, missionaries and the British administration of the Cape take centre stage in the analysis. The Griqua, of mixed settler and indigenous descent, secured hegemony in a frontier of complex partnerships and power struggles. The author's subsequent critique of the "frontier tradition" in South African historiography drew on the insights he had gained in writing this dissertation. It served to initiate the debate about the importance of the precolonial frontier situation in South Africa for the establishment of ideas of race, the development of racial prejudice and, implicitly, the creation of segregationist and apartheid systems. Today, the constructed histories of "Griqua" and other categories of indigeneity have re emerged in South Africa as influential tools of political mobilisation and claims on resources.
The Politics of a South African Frontier
Author: Chatfield LegassickPublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 3905758555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
This book publishes Martin Legassick's influential doctoral thesis on the preindustrial South African frontier zone of Transorangia. The impressive formation of the Griqua states in the first half of the nineteenth century outside the borders of the Cape Colony and their relations with Sotho-Tswana polities, frontiersmen, missionaries and the British administration of the Cape take centre stage in the analysis. The Griqua, of mixed settler and indigenous descent, secured hegemony in a frontier of complex partnerships and power struggles. The author's subsequent critique of the "frontier tradition" in South African historiography drew on the insights he had gained in writing this dissertation. It served to initiate the debate about the importance of the precolonial frontier situation in South Africa for the establishment of ideas of race, the development of racial prejudice and, implicitly, the creation of segregationist and apartheid systems. Today, the constructed histories of "Griqua" and other categories of indigeneity have re emerged in South Africa as influential tools of political mobilisation and claims on resources.
Catalogue of Periodicals and Newspapers in the Library of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Author: Basler Afrika BibliographienPublisher: BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
ISBN: 9783905141733
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Lion and the Springbok
Author: Ronald HyamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521824532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This book traces British and South African relations from the Boer War to the present.
Networks of Domination
Author: Paul K. MacdonaldPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199362165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
In the nineteenth century, European states conquered vast stretches of territory across the periphery of the international system. This book challenges the conventional wisdom that these conquests were the product of European military dominance or technological superiority. In contrast, it claims that favorable social conditions helped fuel peripheral conquest. European states enjoyed greatest success when they were able to recruit local collaborators and exploit divisions among elites in targeted societies. Different configurations of social ties connecting potential conquerors with elites in the periphery played a critical role in shaping patterns of peripheral conquest as well as the strategies conquerors employed. To demonstrate this argument, the book compares episodes of British colonial expansion in India, South Africa, and Nigeria during the nineteenth century. It also examines the contemporary applicability of the theory through an examination of the United States occupation of Iraq.