John Higginson

Collective Violence and the Agrarian Origins of South African Apartheid, 1900-1948

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 663g
• ISBN-13: 9781107643413
• ISBN-10: 1107643414
• Artikelnr.: 47738321

Autorenporträt

John Higginson is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is also a research Fellow in the College of Human Sciences and the department of history at the University of South Africa in Pretoria, South Africa. He is the author of A Working Class in the Making: Belgian Colonial Labor Policy, Private Enterprise and the African Mineworker, 1907-1951 (1989). He has written numerous articles and book chapters on South Africa and the regional economic system of southern Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Ashes of Defeat: 1. Introduction
2. The etiology of guerrilla organization in the western Transvaal, July 1900 to December 1902
3. Peonage or empire?: the reconstruction of white supremacy
4. Milnerism, the Chinese labor experiment, and the advent of Het Volk
Part II. Sidestepping the King's Writ: 5. Ministering to the dry bones of white supremacy: from union and the 1913 Natives Land Act to the 1914 rebellion
6. A glass brimming over: the failed 1914 rebellion in Rustenburg and Marico
7. Turbulent cities, smoldering countryside, 1914-22
8. After the rebellion, before the pact, 1919-24
Part III. A Hoofdliere or Boere Republic?: 9. The pact, the depression, and the stillborn republic, 1924-33
10. A thousand little Hoofdlier, 1934-48
Epilogue.