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White supremacy and black resistance in pre-industrial South Africa : the making of the colonial order in the Eastern Cape 1770-1865
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ISBN: 0521404797 9780521404792 Year: 1992 Volume: 72 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,


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Poverty, war, and violence in South Africa
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ISBN: 9781107607958 9781139005050 9781107013612 9781139161671 1139161679 1139005057 9781139159623 1139159623 9781139157865 1139157868 1107013615 1107607957 1107229588 1139153099 1283341182 9786613341181 1139160672 1139156101 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Poverty and violence are issues of global importance. In Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa, Clifton Crais explores the relationship between colonial conquest and the making of South Africa's rural poor. Based on a wealth of archival sources, this detailed history changes our understanding of the origins of the gut-wrenching poverty that characterizes rural areas today. Crais shifts attention away from general models of economic change and focuses on the enduring implications of violence in shaping South Africa's past and present. Crais details the devastation wrought by European forces and their African auxiliaries. Their violence led to wanton bloodshed, large-scale destruction of property, and famine. Crais explores how the survivors struggled to remake their lives, including the adoption of new crops, and the world of inequality and vulnerability colonial violence bequeathed. He concludes with a discussion of contemporary challenges and the threats to democracy in South Africa.

White supremacy and Black resistance in pre-industrial South Africa
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ISBN: 0511005830 9780511005831 0521404797 Year: 1992 Volume: 72 Publisher: Cambridge [England] New York Cambridge University Press

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The culture of power in Southern Africa: essays on state formation and the political imagination
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ISBN: 9780325070834 Year: 2003 Publisher: Portsmouth (N.H.) Heinemann

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The culture of power in Southern Africa : essays on state formation and the political imagination
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ISSN: 10998098 ISBN: 0325070849 Year: 2003 Publisher: Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann,

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Poverty, war, and violence in South Africa
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ISBN: 9781139005050 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The politics of evil : magic, state power, and the political imagination in South Africa
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ISBN: 0521817218 9780521104821 9780521817219 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press

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Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus : a ghost story and a biography.
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ISBN: 9780691135809 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton Princeton university press

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Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus : a ghost story and a biography
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ISBN: 9780691147963 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,

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Displayed on European stages from 1810 to 1815 as the Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman was one of the most famous women of her day, and also one of the least known. As the Hottentot Venus, she was seen by Westerners as alluring and primitive, a reflection of their fears and suppressed desires. But who was Sara Baartman? Who was the woman who became the Hottentot Venus? Based on research and interviews that span three continents, Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus tells the entwined histories of an illusive life and a famous icon. In doing so, the book raises questions about the possibilities and limits of biography for understanding those who live between and among different cultures.In reconstructing Baartman's life, the book traverses the South African frontier and its genocidal violence, cosmopolitan Cape Town, the ending of the slave trade, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, London and Parisian high society, and the rise of racial science. The authors discuss the ramifications of discovering that when Baartman went to London, she was older than originally assumed, and they explore the enduring impact of the Hottentot Venus on ideas about women, race, and sexuality. The book concludes with the politics involved in returning Baartman's remains to her home country, and connects Baartman's story to her descendants in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa.Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus offers the authoritative account of one woman's life and reinstates her to the full complexity of her history.


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The South Africa reader : history, culture, politics
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ISBN: 9780822355298 9780822355144 Year: 2014 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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