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From Early Times to 1885

Series The Cambridge History of South Africa, Volume 1

Edited by Carolyn Hamilton, Bernard K. Mbenga and Robert Ross

Publication Date 2010

Hardback ISBN-10
052151794X

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521517942

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521517942

Overview

Carolyn Hamilton obtained her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1993. Formerly Director of South Africa's first Graduate School for the Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand, she led the Constitution of Public Intellectual Life project at Wits and is now NRF Research Professor in Archives and Public Culture, University of Cape Town. An authority on South Africa's precolonial history, she is internationally recognized for her book, Terrific Majesty, the Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention (1998), and for her work interrogating the concept of the archive and elucidating its political effects.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

The Production of Preindustrial South African History
by
Carolyn Hamilton, Bernard K. Mbenga and Robert Ross

The Appearance of Food Production in Southern Africa 1,000 to 2,000 Years Ago
by
John Parkington and Simon Hall

Farming Communities of the Second Millennium: Internal Frontiers, Identity, Continuity and Change
by
Simon Hall

Khoesan and Immigrants: The Emergence of Colonial Society in the Cape, 1500–1800
by
Robert Ross

Turbulent Times: Political Transformations in the North and East, 1760s–1830s
by
John Wright

From Slave Economy to Settler Capitalism: The Cape Colony and Its Extensions, 1800–1854
by
Martin Legassick and Robert Ross

From Colonial Hegemonies to Imperial Conquest, 1840–1880
by
NormanEtherington,, Patrick Harries and Bernard K. Mbenga

Transformations in Consciousness
by
Paul S. Landau

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