The Making of South Africa
The Making of South Africa

Author: Aran S. MacKinnon

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780205795499

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A survey of South African history from the formation of early human communities to the present. The Making of South Africa provides a detailed understanding of all the forces that have shaped South Africa to date. It represents a valuable and unique addition to the field by emphasizing African voices as well as recent developments in South Africa, including analyses on the post-transition political change, the World Cup of soccer, and public health issues. The text incorporates important new perspectives on South African geography and the spatial dimensions of segregation and apartheid. It also covers environmental studies and the dynamic literature on identities and ethnicity while highlighting how Europeans and Africans shaped the environment, politics, and the economy to develop a complex multi-ethnic nation. Learning Goals Upon completing this book readers will be able to: Understand how South Africa became the nation it is today View South African history from the point of view of Africans as well as Europeans who have settled there Assess the impact of cultural, political, social, economic, geographical, environmental, and health-related forces on South African history

The Making of Modern South Africa
The Making of Modern South Africa

Author: Nigel Worden

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2000-08-03

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780631217169

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Recent events in South Africa have taken on renewed interest for historians and general readers alike. In this third edition of The Making of Modern South Africa, Nigel Worden provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the key themes and debates central to an understanding of the region. The book examines the major issues in South Africa's history, from the colonial conquests of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the establishment of racism, segregation and apartheid; the spirit of reform, resistance and repression of the 1980s and up to the present day. In this new edition, Worden brings events up to the second democratic election of 1999, and incorporates new material published since 1990. With the break up of institutional apartheid, perspectives on recent South African history have undergone a significant shift. Nigel Worden examines these changes and assesses developments within the new South Africa in a wide historical context, providing a sharp, analytical overview for all those interested in modern South African history and politics.

Sound of Africa!
Sound of Africa!

Author: Louise Meintjes

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2003-02-05

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780822330141

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DIVAn ethnography of the recording of Mbaqanga music, that examines its relation to issues of identity, South African politics, and global political economy./div

The Making of South African Legal Culture 1902-1936
The Making of South African Legal Culture 1902-1936

Author: Martin Chanock

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-03-05

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 9780521791564

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Martin Chanock's illuminating and definitive perspective on that development examines all areas of the law including criminal law and criminology; the Roman-Dutch law; the State's African law; and land, labour and 'rule of law' questions.

A Living Man from Africa
A Living Man from Africa

Author: Roger S. Levine

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2010-12-21

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 0300168594

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Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change—one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary, chief, and cultural intermediary on the eastern Cape frontier and in Cape Town and a traveler in Great Britain, Tzatzoe helped foster the merging of African and European worlds into a new South African reality. Yet, by the 1860s, despite his determined resistance, he was an oppressed subject of harsh British colonial rule. In this innovative, richly researched, and splendidly written biography, Roger S. Levine reclaims Tzatzoe's lost story and analyzes his contributions to, and experiences with, the turbulent colonial world to argue for the crucial role of Africans as agents of cultural and intellectual change.

Negotiating the Past
Negotiating the Past

Author: Sarah Nuttall

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Nations as well as individuals are in many ways the sum of their memories, which are shaped by perception as much as by events. This collection of essays by South African academics looks at the ways the country is dealing with its past, a complex mixture of colonialism, slavery, apartheid,struggle, and guilt. The emphasis is on how that past is being perceived and moulded in the post-apartheid era.

A History of South Africa
A History of South Africa

Author: Leonard Monteath Thompson

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780300065428

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Reexamines the history of South Africa, traces the development of apartheid, and describes the anti-apartheid movement

Making Race and Nation
Making Race and Nation

Author: Anthony W. Marx

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-10-28

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780521585903

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Why and how has race become a central aspect of politics during this century? This book addresses this pressing question by comparing South African apartheid and resistance to it, the United States Jim Crow law and protests against it, and the myth of racial democracy in Brazil. Anthony Marx argues that these divergent experiences had roots in the history of slavery, colonialism, miscegenation and culture, but were fundamentally shaped by impediments and efforts to build national unity. In South Africa and the United States, ethnic or regional conflicts among whites were resolved by unifying whites and excluding blacks, while Brazil's longer established national unity required no such legal racial crutch. Race was thus central to projects of nation-building, and nationalism shaped uses of race. Professor Marx extends this argument to explain popular protest and the current salience of issues of race.