Studies in the Economic History of Southern Africa
Studies in the Economic History of Southern Africa

Author: Z.A. Konczacki

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1135199019

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First Published in 1990. Volume Two of Studies of Economic History of South Africa, looks at the Lesotho and Swaziland regions. The unfolding history and historiography of Southern Africa pose profound challenges for both analysis and praxis in the last decade of the twentieth century. These challenges are reflected in the range of investigations and contradictions, some of which are treated here, which together constitute an intellectual and political conjuncture. This collection of studies deals with the countries which were not included in the companion book on the economic history of the Front- Line States. Most of the space in the present volume is devoted to South Africa, primarily because of its importance to the region but also because contributions to the economic history of that country in English are very extensive as compared to the other states of Southern Africa.

Racism and Colonialism
Racism and Colonialism

Author: R.J. Ross

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 9400975449

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1. REFLECTIONS ON A THEME by ROBERT ROSS This book, the fourth in the series Comparative Studies in Overseas History, and, like its predecessors, the product of a symposium held by the Leiden Centre for the History of European Expansion, is organised around a single theme, the relationship between the ideological structures of domination and oppression that have come to be called racism and the political and economic ones which grew out of Europe's conquering and ruling much of the rest of the world. By racism, we mean those systems of thought in which group characteristics of human beings, of a non-somatic nature, are considered to be fixed by principles of descent and in which, in general, physical attributes (other than those of sex) are the main sign by which characteristics are attributed. In addition, almost by definition, the systems of thought entailed in this require that there is a hierarchy of the various races, and that those people in the lower ranks of that hierarchy are seriously disadvantaged, at least if the proponents of racist thought are able to impose their will on the society in which they live. ! The exclusion of the discrimination of women from the concept of racism should not be thought as entailing that racist and sexist ideas do not have much in common, since both derive from essentially biological determinism, and indeed 2 racist societies have historically almost invariably been strongly sexist.

Class, Caste and Color
Class, Caste and Color

Author: Wilmot James

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-20

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 9781138520578

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Editors and Contributors -- Part One: Historical Foundations -- 1. Labour, Land and Livestock in the Western Cape during the Eighteenth Century -- 2. The Family and Slavery at the Cape, 1680-1808 -- 3. Adjusting to Emancipation: Freed Slaves and Farmers in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century South-Western Cape -- 4. Structure and Culture in Pre-Industrial Cape Town: A survey of Knowledge and Ignorance -- 5. A 'Special Tradition of Multi-Racialism' ? Segregation in Cape Town in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 6. Aspects of the Rise of Afrikaner Capital and Afrikaner Nationalism in the Western Cape, 1870-1915 -- Part Two: Economy and Labour -- 7. The Underdevelopment of the Western Cape, 1850-1900 -- 8. Artisans and Trade Unions in the Cape Town Building Industry 1900-1924 -- 9. Wolseley's Great Strike -- 10. The General Workers' Union, 1973-1986 -- Part Three: Politics and Society -- 11. Ideology and Urban Planning: Blueprints of a Garrison City -- 12. Administrative Politics and the Coloured Labour Preference Policy During the 1960s -- 13. Non-Collaboration in the Western Cape, 1943-1963 -- 14. Local Government Restructuring in Greater Cape Town -- 15. 'Action, Comrades, Action!': The Politics of Youth-Student Resistance in the Western Cape, 1985 -- References -- Index

South Africa, Past, Present and Future
South Africa, Past, Present and Future

Author: Tony Binns

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1317880404

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This is the first book to combine a discussion of post-apartheid development initiatives with an extended historical analysis of South Africa's dynamic race, class, gender and ethnic identities. Bringing together the research of an historical geographer and two development geographers, the book enables us to locate the post-apartheid transition in a broad historical and spatial perspective. Within this perspective, the limitations as well as the achievements of South Africa's current transformation are highlighted.