| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Reconsiderations in southern African history
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Reconsiderations in southern African history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-223) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Landscape, people and politics : Cradock in the age of segregation -- Lodgers, layabouts, and laborers : access and residence for coloreds and Africans -- Race and the politics of liquor and beer -- Water, slops, and night soil : sanitation for an up-to-date town -- Charity and welfare in the age of segregation -- "Is it nothing to you?" : public health in the age of segregation -- Improvement or removal? : segregated public housing -- Apartheid comes to Cradock -- Conclusion : the age of segregation and the age of Apartheid. |
| Summary |
"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 coloreds were affected by the bitter transition from segregation before 1948 to apartheid thereafter."--Back cover |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Apartheid -- South Africa -- Cradock -- History.
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Apartheid. |
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South Africa -- Cradock. |
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History. |
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Apartheid -- South Africa -- History.
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South Africa. |
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Cradock (South Africa) -- Race relations -- History.
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Cradock (South Africa) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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Race relations. |
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Segregation. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Elphick, Richard, editor.
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Hopkins, Jeannette, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Butler, Jeffrey. Cradock. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017 9780813940588 (DLC) 2017024791 (OCoLC)988169624 |
| ISBN |
9780813940588 (electronic book) |
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0813940583 (electronic book) |
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9780813940595 (electronic book) |
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0813940591 (electronic book) |
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0813940583 |
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