Cambridge History of South Africa - C. 200 Ad-1885

Zusammenfassung Coming fourteen years after South Africa's achievement of majority rule! this book takes a critical and searching look at the country's past. The book's chapters! by ten of the best historians of South Africa! represent a reassessment of the major historical events! developments! and records of South Africa and will be an important new tool for students and professors of African history worldwide. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Robert Ross, Carolyn Hamilton and Bernard Mbenga; 1. Food production in Southern Africa 1000 to 2000 years ago John Parkington and Simon Hall; 2. Farming communities of the second millennium: internal frontiers, identity, continuity and change Simon Hall; 3. Khoesan and immigrants: the emergence of colonial society in the Cape, 1500-1800 Robert Ross; 4. Turbulent times: political transformations in the North and East, 1760s-1830s John Wright; 5. From slave economy to settler capitalism: the Cape colony and its extensions, 1800-1854 Martin Legassick and Robert Ross; 6. From colonial hegemonies to imperial conquest, 1840-1880 Patrick Harries, Norman Etherington and Bernard Mbenga; 7. Transformations in consciousness Paul Landau.

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn Hamilton, Carolyn (University of Cape Town) Mbenga Hamilton, Robert Hamilton Ross
• Assisted by: Carolyn Hamilton (Editor), Bernard K. Mbenga (Editor), Robert Ross (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521517942
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51794-2
• No. of pages: 472
• Series: Cambridge History of South Afr; Cambridge History of South Afr
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous