South Africa in world history
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South Africa in world history
（The new Oxford world history / general editors, Bonnie G. Smith, Anand A. Yang）
Oxford University Press, 2009
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- : hardcover
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: hardcover ISBN 9780195157543
Description
This volume begins in the early centuries of the Common Era with the various groups of people who had settled in southern Africa.. Stone Age foragers, farmers with iron technology, and pastoralists all interacted to create a complex society before Europeans arrived. In the seventeenth century, Dutch settlers developed a colonial society based on the menial labor of indigenous inhabitants of the Cape and slaves imported from the East Indies and other parts of Africa.
British conquest in the early nineteenth century brought an end to slavery, as well as new forms of colonial domination, tension between the British and the original Dutch settlers, armed struggle between expanding European communities and Africans (including the highly militarized Zulu kingdom), and intensive missionary activity that transformed many African societies. The discovery of diamonds and gold in the late nineteenth century brought industrialization based on migrant labor, new
clashes between British and Africaaners, the final conquest of African societies, and new European migrants. During the twentieth-century, despite further economic development, African communities were increasingly impoverished. New forms of racial domination lead to the implementation of apartheid in
1948 and heightened political organizing among both African and Africaaner nationalists. The intensification of resistance in the 1970s and '80s coupled with drastic changes in the international balance of power brought an end to the apartheid state in 1994 and an intensified struggle to overcome apartheid's economic and political legacy by building a new nonracial society.
The book emphasizes social and cultural history, focusing on people's interactions and identities according to race, class, gender, religion and ethnicity. It also addresses changes in literature (both oral and written), music, and the arts and draws on the extensive biographical and autobiographical literature to provide a personal focus for the discussion of major themes. While this emphasis reflects dominant trends in historical scholarship for the past two decades, it also includes recent
material on environmental history and relationships between African Americans and South Africans. Where relevant, it highlights comparisons between South African and U.S. history.
Table of Contents
- 1. Ecology, Culture, and Society
- 2. Bitter Almond Hedges: Colonization, Servitude, and Slavery
- 3. New Frontiers: Conquest, Resistance, and Cultural Transformation
- 4. A Century in Transition: Minerals, War, and Unification
- 5. Worlds Apart: A New Racial Divide
- 6. Nationalisms in Conflict: The Rise of Apartheid
- 7. "No Easy Walk to Freedom"
- 8. Democracy and Its Discontents
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: pbk ISBN 9780195337938
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South Africa in World History is the first survey of South African history to range from prehistory to the present, the first to fully integrate social history and women's history, and the first to emphasize connections between the United States and South Africa. Written by Iris Berger, a recognized authority on South Africa and a past president of the African Studies Association, this marvelous history ranges from the first Stone Age foragers and Iron Age
farmers to the coming of the Dutch settlers and the introduction of slavery, the British conquest in the early nineteenth century, the discovery of gold and diamonds, the rise of Afrikaner Nationalism, the coming of apartheid, the Soweto Uprising, and the creation of a new society headed by Nelson Mandela.
Drawing on colorful biographical and autobiographical literature to provide a personal focus, Berger also explores social and cultural history, examining issues of race, class, gender, religion, and ethnicity, and drawing on a rich tradition of literature (both oral and written), music, and the arts. The book also discusses the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the devastating HIV/Aids epidemic in the country, and continuing struggles against racism and sexism, thus connecting the South
African past with urgent contemporary issues.
Table of Contents
- Editors' Preface
- Preface
- 1. Ancestors
- 2. Bitter Almond Hedges: Colonization, Servitude, and Slavery
- 3. New Frontiers
- 4. Minerals, War, and Unification
- 5. Worlds Apart: A New Racial Divide
- 6. Nationalisms in Conflict: The Rise of Apartheid
- 7. "No Easy Walk to Freedom
- 8. Democracy and Its Discontents
- Chronology
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Websites
- Index
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