Cradock: How Segregation and Apartheid Came to a South African Town (Reconsiderations in Southern African History) - Hardcover

Butler, Jeffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813940583 ISBN 13: 9780813940588

Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 2017

Synopsis

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 coloreds were affected by the bitter transition from segregation before 1948 to apartheid thereafter.

About this title

About the Author

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.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813940583
• ISBN 13: 9780813940588
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Elphick Richard, Hopkins Jeannette