Adam Kok's Griquas: A Study in the Development of Stratification in South Africa - Couverture rigide

Ross, Robert

 
9780521211994: Adam Kok's Griquas: A Study in the Development of Stratification in South Africa
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521211999 ISBN 13 : 9780521211994
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1976

Synopsis

This book examines the ways in which racial and economic stratification were brought to coincide in pre-industrial South Africa by describing in detail the history of one group, the Griquas of Philippolis and Kokstad. These people, of very mixed origins, were central, both physically and symbolically, to the processes of South African history in the nineteenth century. They were able to gain control over a very large area of the southern Orange Free State, where they established what was, for a time, a prosperous little state. Very many Griquas became Christian, although this did not mean that they were dominated by the missionaries – rather the reverse. A substantial number were literate. Moreover, they made use of all possible means of developing their own wealth, first as ivory hunters and then as successful horse and sheep ranchers. In short, they fulfilled all the criteria for acceptance into the ruling class of white South Africa. except that they were not white.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book examines the ways in which racial and economic stratification were brought to coincide in pre-industrial South Africa by describing in detail the history of one group, the Griquas of Philippolis and Kokstad. These people, of very mixed origins, were central, both physically and symbolically, to the processes of South African history in the nineteenth century. They were able to gain control over a very large area of the southern Orange Free State, where they established what was, for a time, a prosperous little state. Very many Griquas became Christian, although this did not mean that they were dominated by the missionaries – rather the reverse. A substantial number were literate. Moreover, they made use of all possible means of developing their own wealth, first as ivory hunters and then as successful horse and sheep ranchers. In short, they fulfilled all the criteria for acceptance into the ruling class of white South Africa. except that they were not white.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1976
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521211999
ISBN 13 
9780521211994
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780521102339: Adam Kok's Griquas: A Study in the Development of Stratification in South Africa

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521102332 ISBN 13 :  9780521102339
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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