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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.
Land settlement --- Violence --- Economic development --- Rural poor --- Rural poverty --- Poor --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Resettlement --- Settlement of land --- Colonies --- Land use, Rural --- Human settlements --- History. --- Economic conditions --- South Africa --- Africa, South --- Colonization. --- Arts and Humanities --- History
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Blacks --- Government, Resistance to --- Regions & Countries - Africa --- History & Archaeology --- Politics and government. --- Politics and government --- South Africa --- Race relations. --- History --- Race question --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Black people
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Political culture --- Power (Social sciences) --- Culture politique --- Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) --- History. --- Histoire --- Africa, Southern --- Afrique australe --- Politics and government. --- Politique et gouvernement
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Political culture --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- Culture --- Political science --- History. --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- South Africa --- Politics and government. --- History
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Exploitation --- Museum exhibits --- Racism in museum exhibits --- Women, Khoikhoi --- History --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Social conditions --- Baartman, Sarah. --- Baartman, Sarah
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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.
Femmes khoi-khoi. --- Femmes khoi-khoi --- Racisme --- Musées --- Women, Khoikhoi --- Racism in museum exhibits --- Museum exhibits --- Exploitation --- Conditions sociales. --- Aspect moral --- Biography. --- History --- Social conditions. --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Baartman, Sarah,
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South Africa --- History. --- Civilization. --- Politics and government.
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