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Author : Vivian Bickford-Smith,E. Van Heyningen,Nigel Worden
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0864863845
Author : William Beinart
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191606748
An innovative examination of the forces - both destructive and dynamic - which have shaped twentieth-century South Africa. This book provides a stimulating introduction to the history of South Africa in the twentieth century. It draws on the rich and lively tradition of radical history writing on that country and, to a greater extent than previous accounts, weaves economic and cultural history into the political narrative. Apartheid and industrialization, especially mining, are central theme, as is the rise of nationalism in the Afrikaner and African communities. But the author also emphasizes the neglected significance of rural experiences and local identities in shaping political consciousness. The roles played by such key figure as Smuts, Verwoerd, de Klerk, Plaatje, and Mandela are explored, while recent historiographical trends are reflected in analyses of rural protest, white cultural politics, the vitality of black urban life, and environmental decay. The book assesses the analysis of black reactions to apartheid, the rise of the ANC. The concluding chapter brings this seminal history up-to-date, tackling the issues and events from 1994-1999 - in particular the success of Mandela and the ANC in seeing through the end of apartheid rule. It also looks at the chances of a stable future for the new-found democracy in South Africa.
Author : Dickson Eyoh,Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134565849
With nearly two hundred and fifty individually signed entries, the Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History explores the ways in which the peoples of Africa and their politics, states, societies, economies, environments, cultures and arts were transformed during the course of that Janus-faced century. Overseen by a diverse and distinguished international team of consultant editors, the Encyclopedia provides a thorough examination of the global and local forces that shaped the changes that the continent underwent. Combining essential factual description with evaluation and analysis, the entries tease out patterns from across the continent as a whole, as well as within particular regions and countries: it is the first work of its kind to present such a comprehensive overview of twentieth-century African history. With full indexes and a thematic entry list, together with ample cross-referencing and suggestions for further reading, the Encyclopedia will be welcomed as an essential work of reference by both scholar and student of twentieth-century African history. Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2004
Author : Nigel Worden,Elizabeth Van Heyningen,Vivian Bickford-Smith
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0864866569
This richly illustrated history of Cape Town under Dutch and British rule tells the story of its residents, the world they inhabited and the city they made - beginning in the seventeenth century with the tiny Dutch settlement, hemmed in by mountains and looking out to sea, and ending with the well-established British colonial city, poised confidently on the threshold of the twentieth century. This social history of Cape Town under Dutch and British rule traces the changing character of the city and portrays the varied lives and experiences of its inhabitants e" black and white, rich and poor, slave and free, Christian and Muslim. The story told in these pages is both immensely readable and endlessly interesting, and is sure to remain for long the definitive history of the city. The volume is illustrated throughout with a wealth of paintings, maps and photographs. The book is written for the general reader as well as academics.
Author : Vivian Bickford-Smith,Nigel Worden,Elizabeth Van Heyningen
Publisher : David Philip Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0864863098
This richly illustrated history of Cape Town under Dutch and British rule tells the story of its residents, the world they inhabited and the city they made - beginning in the seventeenth century with the tiny Dutch settlement, hemmed in by mountains and looking out to sea, and ending with the well-established British colonial city, poised confidently on the threshold of the twentieth century.This social history of Cape Town under Dutch and British rule traces the changing character of the city and portrays the varied lives and experiences of its inhabitants black and white, rich and poor, slave and free, Christian and Muslim. The story told in these pages is both immensely readable and endlessly interesting, and is sure to remain for long the definitive history of the city. The volume is illustrated throughout with a wealth of paintings, maps and photographs. The book is written for the general reader as well as academics.
Author : Vivian Bickford-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107002937
A pioneering account of how South Africa's three leading cities were fashioned, experienced, promoted and perceived.
Author : William Beinart,Saul Dubow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134850327
As South Africa moves towards majority rule, and blacks begin to exercise direct political power, apartheid becomes a thing of the past - but its legacy in South African history will be indelible. this book is designed to introduce students to a range of interpretations of one of South Africa's central social characteristics: racial segregation. It: • brings together eleven articles which span the whole history of segregation from its origins to its final collapse • reviews the new historiography of segregation and the wide variety of intellectual traditions on which it is based • includes a glossary, explanatory notes and further reading.
Author : William Andrew Kerkham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cape Town (South Africa)
ISBN : UCAL:B3802408
Author : Vivian Bickford-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 1316628582
Author : S. Pooley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137415448
Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain and the surrounding peninsula has been a crucible for attempts to integrate the social and ecological dimensions of wild fire. This environmental history of humans and wildfire outlines these interactions from the practices of Khoikhoi herders to the conflagrations of January 2000. The region's unique, famously diverse fynbos vegetation has been transformed since European colonial settlement, through urbanisation and biological modifications, both intentional (forestry) and unintentional (biological invasions). In all the diverse visions people have formed for Table Mountain, aesthetic and utilitarian, fire has been regarded as a central problem. This book shows how scientific understandings of fire in fynbos developed slowly in the face of strong prejudices. Human impacts were intensified in the twentieth century, which provides the temporal focus for the book. The disjunctures between popular perception, expert knowledge, policy and management are explored, and the book supplements existing short-term scientific data with proxies on fire incidence trends recovered from historical records.
Author : S. Mark,Stanley Trapido,S. Marks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317868965
"The standard of contribution is high . . . the reader gets a good sense of the cutting edge of historical research." – African Affairs
Author : Nigel Worden,E. Van Heyningen,Vivian Bickford-Smith
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Cape Town (South Africa)
ISBN : 9065501614
Author : Krista Cowman,Ian Packer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527553248
This edited interdisciplinary collection draws together recent original work on the connections between radicalism and localism in a variety of international locations over the last two hundred years. The areas covered include the United Kingdom, North America, South Africa, the Caribbean, Germany, Italy and Spain. The book questions whether certain political issues have more impact at a local level and whether common radical responses can be discerned across space and time. The contributors’ essays also consider to what extent the local offers a space in which new political possibilities can be explored, and especially the extent to which radical participation from groups who are under-represented in many national campaigns appears more easily available at the local level. Finally, the essays in the collection examine the distinctiveness of local political radicalism. This involves looking at the activities of communal organizations and political parties that defined themselves against nationally-situated sites of power, but also at how the many cultural manifestations of radicalism, such as music, theatre and art, were shaped distinctively at local level and how radical ideas were spread across wider areas from local bases.
Author : S. Klausen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230511255
Using original primary sources, this book uncovers and analyzes for the first time the politics of fertility and the battle over birth control in South Africa from 1910 (the year the country was formed) to 1945. It examines the nature and achievements of the South African birth-control movement in pre-apartheid South Africa, including the establishment of voluntary birth-control organizations in urban centres, the national birth-control coalition, and the clinic practices of the country's first birth-control clinics. The book spotlights important actors such as the birth controllers themselves, the women of all 'races' who utilized the clinics' services and the Department of Public Health, placing these within an international as well as national context.
Author : Melvin E. Page
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1233 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781576077627
The most exhaustive reference work available on this critical subject in world history, focusing on the politics, economy, culture, and society of both colonizers and colonized. "The history of the last 500 years is the history of imperialism," writes editor Melvin Page. In the Americas, as a result of imperialist conquest, disease, famine, and war nearly wiped out a population estimated in the tens of millions. Africa was devastated by the slave trade, an integral part of imperialism from the 1400s to the 1800s. In Asia, even though native populations survived, native political institutions were destroyed. Imperialism also forged the two most important ideologies of the last five centuries—racialism and modern nationalism. In more than 600 essays presented in this three-volume encyclopedia, Page and other leading scholars—historians, political scientists, economists, and sociologists—analyze the origins of imperialism, the many forms it took, and its impact worldwide. They also explore imperialism's bitter legacy: the gross inequities of global wealth and power that divide the former conquerors—primarily Europe, the United States, and Japan—from the people they conquered.