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Five Hundred Years Rediscovered: Southern African Precedents and Prospects
Esterhuysen, Amanda, Bonner, Phillip
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Description for Five Hundred Years Rediscovered: Southern African Precedents and Prospects
Paperback. Integrating research and developing trans-frontier research networks, this book challenges thinking about the southern Africa's expanding internal and colonial frontiers, and extends perceptions about southern Africa's colonial past. Num Pages: 308 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps (some col.). BIC Classification: HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 170. Weight in Grams: 560.
In the age of the African Renaissance, southern Africa has needed to reinterpret the past in fresh and more appropriate ways. The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period which remains disfigured by colonial/apartheid assumptions, most notably in the way that African societies are seen as fixed, passive, isolated, un-enterprising and unenlightened.This period is one of the most formative in relation to southern Africa's past while remaining, in many ways, the least known. Key cultural contours took shape, while in a jagged and uneven fashion some of the features of modern identities emerged. Enormous internal economic innovation ... Read more
In the age of the African Renaissance, southern Africa has needed to reinterpret the past in fresh and more appropriate ways. The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period which remains disfigured by colonial/apartheid assumptions, most notably in the way that African societies are seen as fixed, passive, isolated, un-enterprising and unenlightened.This period is one of the most formative in relation to southern Africa's past while remaining, in many ways, the least known. Key cultural contours took shape, while in a jagged and uneven fashion some of the features of modern identities emerged. Enormous internal economic innovation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN
9781868144747
SKU
V9781868144747
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About Esterhuysen, Amanda, Bonner, Phillip
Philip Bonner is Head of Department of History and the Chairperson of the History Workshop, and Noor Nieftagodien is a Lecturer in Development Studies and a Researcher for the History Workshop, both at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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