The Shaping of South African Society, 1652–1840.Richard Elphick, Hermann Giliomee Wesleyan University Press, 15 בינו׳ 2014 - 646 עמודים History is a powerful aid to the understanding of the present, and those who are concerned with the escalating crisis in South Africa will find this an invaluable source book. This is the story of the evolution of a society in which race became the dominant characteristic, the primary determinant of status, wealth, and power. Cultural chauvinism of the first European colonists – primarily the Dutch – merged with economic and demographic developments to create a society in which whites relegated all blacks – free blacks, Africans, imported slaves – to a systematic pattern of subordination and oppression that foreshadowed the apartheid of the twentieth century. From the beginning of the nineteenth century the new empire-builders, the British, reinforced the racial order. In the next century and a half the industrialized South Africa would become firmly integrated into the world economy. Published originally in South Africa in 1979 and updated and expanded now, a decade later, this book by twelve South African, British, Canadian, Dutch, and American scholars is the most comprehensive history of the early years of that troubled nation. The authors put South Africa in the comparative context of other colonial systems. Their social, political, and economic history is rich with empirical data and rests on a solid base of archival research. The story they tell is a complex drama of a racial structure that has resisted hostile impulses from without and rebellion from within. |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 73
... Stellenbosch and Drakenstein, 1680–1700 2.4 Average prices of freehold farms, 1700–1780 2.5 Distribution of loan farms: Southcentral Swellendam 2.6 Foreign ships calling and loan farms issued, c. 1716–1780 3. l Madagascar and the Dutch ...
... Stellenbosch and Drakenstein, they came into contact with Khoikhoi who had long participated in the Company's trade and had long felt its political influence. The Company's impact on Khoikhoi was gradual and cumulative rather than ...
... Stellenbosch (1679) and Drakenstein (1687) greatly intensified the need for Khoikhoi labour. Most farmers in these new settlements had fewer slaves than the farmers who remained in the older Cape district. According to the census of ...
... Stellenbosch which allowed a 'Bastaard Hottentot child (i.e. one of Khoisan-slave ancestry) to be apprenticed to age twenty-five. Though subject to provisions designed to protect the child (see ch. 9, p. 449), this 'inboek'system was a ...
... Stellenbosch and Drakenstein complained that the Company's demand for Khoisan on commandos and in public works interfered with their labour supply. The Company and (after 1795) the British government also employed small numbers as ...
תוכן
PART II THE CAPE ECONOMY | 241 |
PART III GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY | 281 |
PART IV AN OVERVIEW | 519 |
Glossary | 567 |
Bibliography | 571 |
Index | 589 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
The Shaping of South African Society, 1652-1840 <span dir=ltr>Richard Elphick</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 1989 |