This collection of essays significantly refines the way we think about state and society in the British Southern Africa of the 19th and 20th centuries, from the conquest of the Transkei and Natal to contemporary Botswana and Zimbabwe. The essays embody a range of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, history, and historical sociology. Yet they share a set of theoretical and empirical concerns united by an interesting understanding the culture of power-and the power of culture-at Africa's southern tip.

The Culture of Power in Southern Africa (Social History of Africa Series)

History

Crais, Clifton C

Africa

Heinemann

This collection of essays significantly refines the way we think about state and society in the British Southern Africa of the 19th and 20th centuries, from the conquest of the Transkei and Natal to contemporary Botswana and Zimbabwe. The essays embody a range of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, history, and historical sociology. Yet they share a set of theoretical and empirical concerns united by an interesting understanding the culture of power and the power of culture, at Africa's southern tip.

The Culture of Power in Southern Africa: Essays on State Formation and the Political Imagination (Social History of Africa)

Reference

Greenwood

This book provides an innovative and in-depth analysis of the emergence of a racially divided society in pre-industrial Southern Africa. It centers on an exploration of the past of the Eastern Cape, a region of decisive importance in Southern African history. Colonial land and labor policies that had their origin in the Eastern Cape spread into much of British Southern and Eastern Africa and as far away as the White Highlands of Kenya. In the modern era the Eastern Cape has been the cradle of African nationalism in South Africa. Clifton Crais moves beyond the liberal and Marxist approaches that have dominated South African history by bringing questions of culture to the center of his analysis.

White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-industrial South Africa: The Making of the Colonial Order in the Eastern Cape, 1770–1865 (African Studies, Series Number 72)

Arts & Photography

Cambridge University Press

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