The Cambridge History of South Africa

Herausgeber: Hamilton, Carolyn; Ross, Robert; Mbenga, Bernard K.

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Produktbeschreibung

Coming fourteen years after South Africa's achievement of majority rule, this book takes a critical and searching look at the country's past. The book's chapters, by ten of the best historians of South Africa, represent a reassessment of the major historical events, developments, and records of South Africa and will be an important new tool for students and professors of African history worldwide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 700g
• ISBN-13: 9781108791991
• ISBN-10: 1108791999
• Artikelnr.: 58503777

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Robert Ross, Carolyn Hamilton and Bernard Mbenga; 1. Food production in Southern Africa 1000 to 2000 years ago John Parkington and Simon Hall; 2. Farming communities of the second millennium: internal frontiers, identity, continuity and change Simon Hall; 3. Khoesan and immigrants: the emergence of colonial society in the Cape, 1500
1800 Robert Ross; 4. Turbulent times: political transformations in the North and East, 1760s
1830s John Wright; 5. From slave economy to settler capitalism: the Cape colony and its extensions, 1800
1854 Martin Legassick and Robert Ross; 6. From colonial hegemonies to imperial conquest, 1840
1880 Patrick Harries, Norman Etherington and Bernard Mbenga; 7. Transformations in consciousness Paul Landau.