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Martin Legassick - Hidden Histories of Gordonia, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Hidden Histories of Gordonia

Land Dispossession and Resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800–1990

Av Martin Legassick

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The Gordonia region of the Northern Cape province has received relatively little attention from historians. In Hidden Histories of Gordonia: Land dispossession and resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800–1990, Martin Legassick explores aspects of the generally unknown 'brown' and 'black' history of the region. Emphasising the lives of ordinary people, his writing is also in part an exercise in 'applied history' – historical writing with a direct application to people's lives in the present.Tracing the indigenous history of Gordonia as well as the northward movement of Basters and whites from the western Cape through Bushmanland to the Orange River, the book presents accounts of family histories, episodes of indigenous resistance to colonisation, and studies of the ultimate imposition of racial segregation and land dispossession on the inhabitants of the region. A recurrent theme is the question of identity and how the extreme ethnic fluidity and social mixing apparent in earlier times crystallised in the colonial period into racial identities, until with final conquest came imposed racial classification.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2016-04-01
  • Mått: 178 x 254 x 28 mm
  • Vikt: 850 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 436
  • Förlag: Wits University Press
  • ISBN: 9781868149544
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Martin Legassick (1940–2016) was Emeritus Professor of History at the University of the Western Cape. A historian, activist and author, his publications include The Struggle for the Eastern Cape, 1800–1854: Subjugation and the roots of South African democracy (2011) and The Politics of a South African frontier: The Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the missionaries, 1780–1840 (2010).

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"This is a magnum opus, summing up a quarter century of research by one of the most senior and important South African historians." - Neil Parsons, former professor of history, University of Botswana. "There are few areas in South Africa that are like Gordonia. It is to Legassick's great credit that he recognised this, but nevertheless makes the history of the country's major area of desert part of South Africa's totality. It is a major achievement and an important book." - Robert Ross, historian and author of The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa: The Kat River Settlement, 1829-1856

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