A Lion Amongst the Cattle (Social History of Africa)

Paper Edition. Peter Delius presents a carefully crafted and powerfully argued study of politics in rural South Africa from the 1930s to the 1980s.

History

Delius, Peter

Africa

Heinemann

Cloth Edition. Peter Delius presents a carefully crafted and powerfully argued study of politics in rural South Africa from the 1930s to the 1980s.

Land Belongs to Us

Land Belongs to Us: The Pedi Polity, the Boers and the British in the Nineteenth-Century Transvaal (Perspectives on Southern Africa, 35)

Univ. Of California Pr.

If you drive through Mpumalanga with an eye on the landscape flashing by, you may see, near the sides of the road and further away on the hills above and in the valleys below, fragments of building in stone as well as sections of stone-walling breaking the grass cover. Endless stone circles, set in bewildering mazes and linked by long stone passages, cover the landscape stretching from Ohrigstad to Carolina, connecting over 10 000 square kilometres of the escarpment into a complex web of stone-walled homesteads, terraced fields and linking roads. Oral traditions recorded in the early twentieth century named the area Bokoni - the country of the Koni people. Few South Africans or visitors to the country know much about these settlements, and why today they are deserted and largely ignored. A long tradition of archaeological work which might provide some of the answers remains cloistered in universities and the knowledge vacuum has been filled by a variety of exotic explanations - invoking ancient settlers from India or even visitors from outer space - that share a common assumption that Africans were too primitive to have created such elaborate stone structures. Forgotten World defies the usual stereotypes about backward African farming methods and shows that these settlements were at their peak between 1500 and 1820, that they housed a substantial population, organised vast amounts of labour for infrastructural development, and displayed extraordinary levels of agricultural innovation and productivity. The Koni were part of a trading system linked to the coast of Mozambique and the wider world of Indian Ocean trade beyond. Forgotten World tells the story of Bokoni through rigorous historical and archaeological research, and lavishly illustrates it with stunning photographic images.

Forgotten World: The Stone-Walled Settlements of the Mpumalanga Escarpment

Maggs, Tim

Schoeman, Alex

Wits University Press

<div>The issue of land rights is an ongoing and complex topic of debate for South Africans. Rights to Land comes at a time when land redistribution by the government is underway. This book seeks to understand the issues around land rights and distribution of land in South Africa, and proposes that new policies and processes should be developed and adopted.&nbsp; It further provides an analysis of what went so wrong, and warns that a new phase of restitution may ignite conflicting ethnic claims and facilitate elite capture of land and rural resources. Rights to Land is published in partnership with Good Governance Africa (GGA).</div>

Rights to Land: A guide to tenure upgrading and restitution in South Africa

Beinart, William

Hay, Michelle

Jacana Media

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History of Fashion in the 20th Century

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Konemann

Historia de la pintura

Historia de la arquitectura

Architecture

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