Crais / McClendon The South Africa Reader

History, Culture, Politics
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7745-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 624 Seiten

Reihe: The World Readers

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crais, Clifton

McClendon, Thomas V.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.