Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400–1948 Landau Paperback

Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400\u20131948\n\nA history of the politics of South Africa's people from the time of their early settlements in the elevated heartlands to the dawn of apartheid.\n\nPaul S. Landau (Author)\n\n9781107614413, Cambridge University Press\n\nPaperback, published 26 September 2013\n\n318 pages\n23.4 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.49 kg\n\n'This is a greatly ambitious and remarkably successful book. Landau has confronted most of the challenges now facing southern African historians and proposed resolutions to them. We now see that 'tribe' and 'ethnicity' are constructs dating from no earlier than the nineteenth century. For the first time Landau asks what forms of consciousness and organization preceded them. Landau takes his stand in the Highveld, reaching out both north and south. His book will have to be taken account of by every southern Africanist.' Terence Ranger, Oxford University\n\nPopular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400\u20131948]