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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Popular Politics In The History Of South Africa 1400-1948 by Paul S. Landau
Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948 offers an inclusive vision of South Africas past. Drawing largely from original sources, Paul Landau presents a history of the politics of the countrys people, from the time of their early settlements in the elevated heartlands, through the colonial era, to the dawn of Apartheid. A practical tradition of mobilization, alliance, and amalgamation persisted, mutated, and occasionally vanished from view; it survived against the odds in several forms, in tribalisms, Christian assemblies, and other, seemingly hybrid movements; and it continues today. Landau treats southern Africa broadly, concentrating increasingly on the southern Highveld and ultimately focusing on a transnational movement called the Samuelites. He shows how peoples politics in South Africa were suppressed and transformed, but never entirely eliminated.show more