Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948

Landau, Paul S.

Cambridge University Press（2010/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 316 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521196031
• DDC分類 968

Full Description

Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948 offers an inclusive vision of South Africa's past. Drawing largely from original sources, Paul Landau presents a history of the politics of the country's people, from the time of their early settlements in the elevated heartlands, through the colonial era, to the dawn of Apartheid. A practical tradition of mobilization, alliance, and amalgamation persisted, mutated, and occasionally vanished from view; it survived against the odds in several forms, in tribalisms, Christian assemblies, and other, seemingly hybrid movements; and it continues today. Landau treats southern Africa broadly, concentrating increasingly on the southern Highveld and ultimately focusing on a transnational movement called the 'Samuelites'. He shows how people's politics in South Africa were suppressed and transformed, but never entirely eliminated.

Contents

Preface: the birth of the political; 1. Eyewitness engagements; 2. History before tribes; 3. Translations; 4. The incipient order; 5. Mixed people; 6. Twentieth-century tribes.