Publisher description for White supremacy and Black resistance in pre-industrial South Africa : the making of the colonial order in the Eastern Cape, 1770-1865 / Clifton C. Crais.
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This book provides an innovative and in-depth analysis of the emergence of a racially divided society in pre-industrial Southern Africa. It centers on an exploration of the past of the Eastern Cape, a region of decisive importance in Southern African history. Colonial land and labor policies that had their origin in the Eastern Cape spread into much of British Southern and Eastern Africa and as far away as the White Highlands of Kenya. In the modern era the Eastern Cape has been the cradle of African nationalism in South Africa. Clifton Crais moves beyond the liberal and Marxist approaches that have dominated South African history by bringing questions of culture to the center of his analysis.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: South Africa History To 1836, South Africa History 1836-1909, South Africa Race relations, Blacks South Africa Politics and government, Government, Resistance to South Africa