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White Rising

The 1922 Insurrection and Racial Killing in South Africa

By: Jeremy Krikler

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White Rising

The 1922 Insurrection and Racial Killing in South Africa

By: Jeremy Krikler

Racial murder and rebellion lie at the heart of this book. It focuses on South Africa's 'Rand Revolt' of 1922, when Johannesburg and its surrounding towns were wracked by industrial strife, racial violence and insurrection. White workers rose against their employers and the State, black people were hunted through the streets, and strikers launched an onslaught upon police and the army. Krikler recreates this world of intense conflict and analyses the sources and complex nature of its extreme passions. The book suggests novel ways of looking at racial identity and violence, and breaks new ground in other areas - for example, in its assessment of the impact of the First World War on labour movements, and in its exploration of the significance of female violence during the upheaval." "Written with a determination to explore deeper meanings, the book has wide implications for our understanding of race and class in South Africa and elsewhere. It also offers a most vivid portrayal of a rebellion - with all its cruelty, heroism, drama and pathos."--BOOK JACKET.

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Manchester University Press

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0719068444

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Washed with Sun

Landscape and the Making of White South Africa

By: Jeremy Foster

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Washed with Sun

Landscape and the Making of White South Africa

By: Jeremy Foster

South Africa is recognized as a site of both political turmoil and natural beauty, and yet little work has been done in connecting these defining national characteristics. Washed with Sun achieves this conjunction in its multidisciplinary study of South Africa as a space at once natural and constructed. Weaving together practical, aesthetic, and ideological analyses, Jeremy Foster examines the role of landscape in forming the cultural iconographies and spatialities that shaped the imaginary geography of emerging nationhood. Looking in particular at the years following the British victory in the second Boer War, from 1902 to 1930, Foster discusses the influence of painting, writing, architecture, and photography on the construction of a shared, romanticized landscape subjectivity that was perceived as inseparable from "being South African," and thus helped forge the imagined community of white South Africa. In its innovative approach to South Africa's history, Washed with Sun breaks important new ground, combining the persuasive theory of cultural geography with the material specificity of landscape history.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822980355

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9780822980353

The Rand Revolt

The 1922 Insurrection and Racial Killing in South Africa

By: Jeremy Krikler

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The Rand Revolt

The 1922 Insurrection and Racial Killing in South Africa

By: Jeremy Krikler

Racial murder and rebellion lie at the heart of this book. It focuses on South Africa's 'Rand Revolt' of 1922, when Johannesburg and its surrounding towns were wracked by industrial strife, racial violence and insurrection. White workers rose against their employers and the State, black people were hunted through the streets, and strikers launched an onslaught upon police and the army. Krikler recreates this world of intense conflict and analyses the sources and complex nature of its extreme passions. The book suggests novel ways of looking at racial identity and violence, and breaks new ground in other areas -- for example, in its assessment of the impact of the First World War on labour movements, and in its exploration of the significance of female violence during the upheaval. Written with panache and a determination to explore deeper meanings, the book has wide implications for our understanding of race and class in South Africa and elsewhere. It also offers a most vivid portrayal of a rebellion -- with all its cruelty, heroism, drama and pathos.

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Jonathan Ball Publishers

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1868421899

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9781868421893

White Rising

The 1922 Insurrection and Racial Killing in South Africa

By: Jeremy Krikler

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The 1922 Insurrection and Racial Killing in South Africa

By: Jeremy Krikler

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