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South Africa in World History (Hardcover)
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South Africa in World History (Hardcover)
Series: New Oxford World History
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This volume begins in the early centuries of the Common Era with
the various groups of people who had settled in southern Africa..
Stone Age foragers, farmers with iron technology, and pastoralists
all interacted to create a complex society before Europeans
arrived. In the seventeenth century, Dutch settlers developed a
colonial society based on the menial labor of indigenous
inhabitants of the Cape and slaves imported from the East Indies
and other parts of Africa.
British conquest in the early nineteenth century brought an end to
slavery, as well as new forms of colonial domination, tension
between the British and the original Dutch settlers, armed struggle
between expanding European communities and Africans (including the
highly militarized Zulu kingdom), and intensive missionary activity
that transformed many African societies. The discovery of diamonds
and gold in the late nineteenth century brought industrialization
based on migrant labor, new clashes between British and
Africaaners, the final conquest of African societies, and new
European migrants. During the twentieth-century, despite further
economic development, African communities were increasingly
impoverished. New forms of racial domination lead to the
implementation of apartheid in 1948 and heightened political
organizing among both African and Africaaner nationalists. The
intensification of resistance in the 1970s and '80s coupled with
drastic changes in the international balance of power brought an
end to the apartheid state in 1994 and an intensified struggle to
overcome apartheid's economic and political legacy by building a
new nonracial society.
The book emphasizes social and cultural history, focusing
onpeople's interactions and identities according to race, class,
gender, religion and ethnicity. It also addresses changes in
literature (both oral and written), music, and the arts and draws
on the extensive biographical and autobiographical literature to
provide a personal focus for the discussion of major themes. While
this emphasis reflects dominant trends in historical scholarship
for the past two decades, it also includes recent material on
environmental history and relationships between African Americans
and South Africans. Where relevant, it highlights comparisons
between South African and U.S. history.
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