Cradock - How Segregation and Apartheid Came to a South African Town (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Virginia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Reconsiderations in Southern African History
Release date:	December 2017
Authors:	Jeffrey Butler
Editors:	Richard Elphick • Jeannette Hopkins
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 50mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-8139-4058-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-8139-4058-3
Barcode:	9780813940588

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