Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400–1948 - Softcover

Landau, Paul S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107614414 ISBN 13: 9781107614413

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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Book 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, and up to the dawn of Apartheid.

About the Author:

Paul Landau is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of The Realm of the Word: Language, Gender, and Christianity in a Southern African Kingdom (1995) and co-editor of Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa (2002). Professor Landau's work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of African History and the Journal of Religious History.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107614414
• ISBN 13: 9781107614413
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318