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Author Braun, Lindsay Frederick, author.

Title Colonial survey and native landscapes in rural South Africa, 1850-1913 : the politics of divided space in the Cape and Transvaal / by Lindsay Frederick Braun.

Publication Info. Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2015.
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (426 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series African Social Studies Series, 1568-1203 ; Volume 33
African social studies series ; Volume 33.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850-1913: The Politics of Divided Space in the Cape and Transvaal; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Terminology and Usage; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: The Construction of Colonial Terrritory; PART 1: Imagining Lands without Chiefs; 2 Redefining Land and Location in the Eastern Cape; 3 "Cut Into Little Bits": Engineering Social Order; 4 Survey and Mediation in Fingoland; PART 2: Locating the Enduring Kingdom; 5 The Notional Republic; 6 "Before, the Entire Land Was Ramabulana."
7 The Fall and Rise of Mphephu8 Objections and Objectives: SANAC, the Tsewu Case, and the Land Act; Bibliography; Index
Summary In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913 , Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Black people -- Land tenure -- South Africa.
Black people -- Land tenure.
South Africa.
Black people.
Real property -- South Africa.
Real property.
Land tenure -- South Africa.
Land tenure.
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1836-1909.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1836-1909
Subject South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1909-1948.
Chronological Term 1909-1948
1836-1948
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Braun, Lindsay Frederick. Colonial survey and native landscapes in rural South Africa, 1850-1913 : the politics of divided space in the Cape and Transvaal. Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, ©2015 xiv, 410 pages African social studies series ; Volume 33 1568-1203 9789004272330
ISBN 9789004282292 (e-book)
9004282297 (e-book)
9789004272330