Cradock
How Segregation and Apartheid Came to a South African Town
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2017
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-4058-8 (ISBN)
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-4058-8 (ISBN)
Provides a vivid history of a middle-sized South African town in the years when segregation gradually emerged, preceding the rapid and rigorous implementation of apartheid. Although the author was born and raised in Cradock, he avoids sentimentality and offers an ambitious treatment of the racial themes that dominate recent South African history through the details of one emblematic community.
Cradock, the product of more than twenty years of research by Jeffrey Butler, is a vivid history of a middle-sized South African town in the years when segregation gradually emerged, preceding the rapid and rigorous implementation of apartheid. Although Butler was born and raised in Cradock, he avoids sentimentality and offers an ambitious treatment of the racial themes that dominate recent South African history through the details of one emblematic community. Augmenting the obvious political narrative, Cradock examines poor infrastructural conditions that typify a grossly unequal system of racial segregation but otherwise neglected in the region’s historiography. Butler shows, with the richness that only a local study could provide, how the lives of blacks, whites, and mixed-race coloureds were affected by the bitter transition from segregation before 1948 to apartheid thereafter.
Cradock, the product of more than twenty years of research by Jeffrey Butler, is a vivid history of a middle-sized South African town in the years when segregation gradually emerged, preceding the rapid and rigorous implementation of apartheid. Although Butler was born and raised in Cradock, he avoids sentimentality and offers an ambitious treatment of the racial themes that dominate recent South African history through the details of one emblematic community. Augmenting the obvious political narrative, Cradock examines poor infrastructural conditions that typify a grossly unequal system of racial segregation but otherwise neglected in the region’s historiography. Butler shows, with the richness that only a local study could provide, how the lives of blacks, whites, and mixed-race coloureds were affected by the bitter transition from segregation before 1948 to apartheid thereafter.
The late Jeffrey Butler, Professor of History Emeritus at Wesleyan University and esteemed historian of southern Africa, was the author of The Liberal Party and the Jameson Raid. Richard Elphick is Professor of History at Wesleyan University. The late Jeannette Hopkins was Director of the Wesleyan University Press.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.01.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Reconsiderations in Southern African History |
| Zusatzinfo | 23 black & white illustrations, 9 maps, 5 tables |
| Verlagsort | Charlottesville |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 167 x 215 mm |
| Gewicht | 489 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8139-4058-3 / 0813940583 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8139-4058-8 / 9780813940588 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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