The Making of South Africa: Culture and Politics

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Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004 - History - 320 pages

For upper-level undergraduate courses in African and South African history and political science or African sections of Global Studies courses. For graduate courses on South Africa or African history with a South African component.

This new history of South Africa provides a significant and unique addition to existing texts by emphasizing the African voice as well as recent developments in the newly democratic South Africa. This text incorporates important new perspectives on South African geography and the spatial dimensions of segregation and apartheid, environmental studies, and the dynamic literature on identities and ethnicity. Drawing upon the most important developments in recent South African historiography, the text highlights how Europeans and Africans shaped the environment, politics, and the economy to develop a complex multi-racial nation. Overall, it provides students with a detailed understanding of all the forces that have shaped South Africa to date, and is more up-to-date than other texts.

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Contents

The San and the Khoe
6
Farming Society
12
Conclusion
18
Copyright

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African society African workers alliance apartheid became Boer Botha British Buthelezi Cape colony Cape Town cattle challenges chiefdoms chiefs claimed Coloured communities culture demands Despite developed diamond Dingane Dutch eastern Cape economy elected emerged established ethnic farmers force frontier Griqua groups guns herding highveld homeland humanitarian imperial increasing numbers increasingly independent Indian industry interior Johannesburg Khoe Khoesan land large numbers later leaders London major Mandela ment Mfecane migrant labor mining missionaries Moreover Moshoeshoe movement Mzilikazi Natal National nationalist Ndebele Ndwandwe Ngqika numbers of Africans officials opposition Orange organization Party Pedi Pietermaritzburg political protest racial raiding reform region relations remained resistance Rhodes River rural segregation settlement Shaka Shepstone slaves Smuts social Sotho sought South Africa Southern Africa tensions territory tion townships trade Transvaal trekboers trekkers Tswana Union violence wages white farms white settlers women Xhosa Zulu Zulu kingdom

About the author (2004)

"Aran S. MacKinnon" is associate professor of history at the University of West Georgia. He has lived and researched in South Africa and the United Kingdom, and has been published in the "Journal of Southern African Studies, Radical History Review, " and "The Canadian Journal of African Studies, " as well as in various edited collections on South African history.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Making of South Africa: Culture and Politics
AuthorAran S. MacKinnon
Editionillustrated, annotated
PublisherPearson Prentice Hall, 2004
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedJan 9, 2010
ISBN0130406813, 9780130406811
Length320 pages
Subjects ›  ›  › 

History / Africa / General
History / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa
History / General
Juvenile Nonfiction / History / General
Political Science / World / African
  
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