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The Politics of Evil

Magic, State Power and the Political Imagination in South Africa

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Magic, State Power and the Political Imagination in South Africa

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The Politics of Evil

Magic, State Power and the Political Imagination in South Africa

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Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa

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Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa

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Poverty and violence are issues of global importance. In Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa, Clifton Crais explores the relationship between colonial conquest and the making of South Africa's rural poor. Based on a wealth of archival sources, this detailed history changes our understanding of the origins of the gut-wrenching poverty that characterizes rural areas today. Crais shifts attention away from general models of economic change and focuses on the enduring implications of violence in shaping South Africa's past and present. Crais details the devastation wrought by European forces and their African auxiliaries. Their violence led to wanton bloodshed, large-scale destruction of property, and famine. Crais explores how the survivors struggled to remake their lives, including the adoption of new crops, and the world of inequality and vulnerability colonial violence bequeathed. He concludes with a discussion of contemporary challenges and the threats to democracy in South Africa.

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1139503561

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White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-industrial South Africa

The Making of the Colonial Order in the Eastern Cape, 1770-1865

By: Clifton C. Crais

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White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-industrial South Africa

The Making of the Colonial Order in the Eastern Cape, 1770-1865

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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the emergence of a racially divided society in pre-industrial Southern Africa.

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0521404797

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Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa

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Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus

A Ghost Story and a Biography

By: Clifton Crais,Pamela Scully

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Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus

A Ghost Story and a Biography

By: Clifton Crais,Pamela Scully

Displayed on European stages from 1810 to 1815 as the Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman was one of the most famous women of her day, and also one of the least known. As the Hottentot Venus, she was seen by Westerners as alluring and primitive, a reflection of their fears and suppressed desires. But who was Sara Baartman? Who was the woman who became the Hottentot Venus? Based on research and interviews that span three continents, Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus tells the entwined histories of an elusive life and a famous icon. In doing so, the book raises questions about the possibilities and limits of biography for understanding those who live between and among different cultures. In reconstructing Baartman's life, the book traverses the South African frontier and its genocidal violence, cosmopolitan Cape Town, the ending of the slave trade, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, London and Parisian high society, and the rise of racial science. The authors discuss the ramifications of discovering that when Baartman went to London, she was older than originally assumed, and they explore the enduring impact of the Hottentot Venus on ideas about women, race, and sexuality. The book concludes with the politics involved in returning Baartman's remains to her home country, and connects Baartman's story to her descendants in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus offers the authoritative account of one woman's life and reinstates her to the full complexity of her history.

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Princeton University Press

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0691238359

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White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-industrial South Africa

The Making of the Colonial Order in the Eastern Cape, 1770-1865

By: Clifton C. Crais

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The Making of the Colonial Order in the Eastern Cape, 1770-1865

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Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus

A Ghost Story and a Biography

By: Clifton Crais,Pamela Scully

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A Ghost Story and a Biography

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Princeton University Press

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Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa

By: Clifton C. Crais

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Clifton Crais explores the relationship between colonial conquest and the making of South Africa's rural poor.

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The Politics of Evil

The Politics of Evil

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Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa

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White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-industrial South Africa

White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-industrial South Africa

Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa

Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa

Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus

Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus

White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-industrial South Africa

White Supremacy and Black Resistance in Pre-industrial South Africa

Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus

Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus

Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa

Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa

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