Author: George McCall ThealPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
History of South Africa Since September, 1795
Author: George McCall ThealPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
History of South Africa, 1486-1691
Author: George McCall ThealPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Shaping of South African Society, 1652–1840.
Author: Richard ElphickPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819573760
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
History is a powerful aid to the understanding of the present, and those who are concerned with the escalating crisis in South Africa will find this an invaluable source book. This is the story of the evolution of a society in which race became the dominant characteristic, the primary determinant of status, wealth, and power. Cultural chauvinism of the first European colonists – primarily the Dutch – merged with economic and demographic developments to create a society in which whites relegated all blacks – free blacks, Africans, imported slaves – to a systematic pattern of subordination and oppression that foreshadowed the apartheid of the twentieth century. From the beginning of the nineteenth century the new empire-builders, the British, reinforced the racial order. In the next century and a half the industrialized South Africa would become firmly integrated into the world economy. Published originally in South Africa in 1979 and updated and expanded now, a decade later, this book by twelve South African, British, Canadian, Dutch, and American scholars is the most comprehensive history of the early years of that troubled nation. The authors put South Africa in the comparative context of other colonial systems. Their social, political, and economic history is rich with empirical data and rests on a solid base of archival research. The story they tell is a complex drama of a racial structure that has resisted hostile impulses from without and rebellion from within.
History of South Africa since September 1795
Author: Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108023673
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
George McCall Theal (1837-1919) was a prolific South African historian and civil servant. After working as a missionary between 1875-1880 he was appointed magistrate of Tamacha before taking a position as a clerk in the government and became Keeper of the Cape Colony Archives. He was appointed Colonial Historiographer in 1891. These volumes, first published in 1908, contain Theal's detailed history of South Africa between 1795-1894. Focusing on the political history of the country, Theal explores the British control of Cape Colony and the reactions of the Dutch setters to increasing British immigration, discussing the political consequences of the establishment of the various Boer Republics and the growth of Zulu power in South Africa. These volumes provide valuable details on the political history of South Africa, and reveal contemporary attitudes towards the history and ideas of colonisation. Volume 5 covers the colonies between 1854-1894.
The Cambridge History of South Africa: Volume 1, From Early Times to 1885
Author: Carolyn HamiltonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108791991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reflecting on South Africa's achievement of majority rule, this book takes a critical and searching look at the country's past. It presents South Africa's past in an objective, clear, and refreshing manner. With chapters contributed by ten of the best historians of the country, the book elaborately weaves together new data, interpretations, and perspectives on the South African past, from the Early Iron Age to the eve of the mineral revolution on the Rand. Its findings incorporate new sources, methods, and concepts, for example providing new data on the relations between Africans and colonial invaders and rethinking crucial issues of identity and consciousness. This book represents an important reassessment of all the major historical events, developments, and records of South Africa - written, oral, and archaeological - and will be an important new tool for students and professors of African history worldwide.
A Concise History of South Africa
Author: Robert RossPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521575782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This book provides a succinct synthesis of South African history from the introduction of agriculture about 1500 years ago up to and including the government of Nelson Mandela. Stressing economic, social, cultural and environmental matters as well as political history, it shows how South Africa has become a single country. On the one hand it lays emphasis on the country's African heritage, and shows how this continues to influence social structures, ways of thought and ideas of governance. On the other, it chronicles the processes of colonial conquest and of economic development and unification stemming from the industrial revolution which began at the end of the nineteenth century. This leads on to a description and analysis of the fundamental political changes which South Africa is currently undergoing, while providing a background for the understanding of those many things which have not changed.
Apartheid
Author: Edgar H. BrookesPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000624412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Originally published in 1968, this volume traces the history and growth of Apartheid in South Africa. The acts which enforced Apartheid – the Group Areas Act, Population and Registration Act are given in full. The book also includes documents which reflected reaction to these measures: Parliamentary debates, newspaper reports and policy statements by the leading political parties and religious denominations. The documents are headed by a full historical and analytical introduction.
A History of South Africa
Author: Leonard Monteath ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300065428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Reexamines the history of South Africa, traces the development of apartheid, and describes the anti-apartheid movement
History and Ethnography of Africa South of the Zambesi
Author: George McCall ThealPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
History and Ethnography of Africa South of the Zambesi
Author: George McCall ThealPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019676431
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First published in 1888, this classic volume remains one of the most comprehensive accounts of the Portuguese colonization of southern Africa during the early modern period. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources and his own extensive research, author George McCall Theal provides a detailed analysis of the political, economic, and social factors that shaped the Portuguese presence in the region. He also explores the interactions between Portuguese settlers and indigenous peoples, offering a nuanced and complex picture of the complex dynamics of colonialism. This is an essential book for anyone interested in the history of southern Africa or the broader history of European colonialism. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.