The South Africa Reader

History, Culture, Politics
Herausgeber: Crais, Clifton; McClendon, Thomas V

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

More than eighty absorbing texts and images shed light on South Africa's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, and the forces that have shaped its history and pose challenges to its future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 998g
• ISBN-13: 9780822355144
• ISBN-10: 0822355140
• Artikelnr.: 38151148

Autorenporträt

Clifton Crais is Professor of History and Director of African Studies at Emory University. He is the author of Poverty, War and Violence in South Africa; Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography (with Pamela Scully); and The Politics of Evil: Magic, Power and the Political Imagination in South Africa. Thomas V. McClendon is Professor of History at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. He is the author of White Chief, Black Lords: Shepstone and the Colonial State in Natal, South Africa, 1845–1878 and Genders and Generations Apart: Labor Tenants and Customary Law in Segregation-Era South Africa, 1920s to 1940s.

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Style xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1
I. African Worlds, African Voices 9
II. Colonial Settlement, Slavery, and Peonage 33
III. Frontiers 87
IV. All That Glitters 123
V. United and Divided 197
VI. Apartheid and the Struggle for Freedom 279
VII. From Soweto to Liberation 357
VIII. Transitions and Reconiliations 473
Glossary 583
Suggestions for Further Reading 585
Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources 591
Index 599