Popular politics in the history of South Africa, 1400-1948
By: Paul S. Landau
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521196031
Description: "Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948 offers a newly 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 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.