Colonial survey and native landscapes in rural South Africa, 1850-1913 : the politics of divided space in the Cape and Transvaal / / by Lindsay Frederick Braun

• Autore: Braun Lindsay Frederick
• Pubblicazione: Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (426 pages)
• Disciplina: 333.3096809034
• Soggetto topico: Black people - South Africa - Politics and government; Real property - South Africa; Land tenure - South Africa
• Soggetto geografico: South Africa Politics and government 1836-1909; South Africa Politics and government 1909-1948
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- Introduction: The Construction of Colonial Terrritory / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- Redefining Land and Location in the Eastern Cape / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- “Cut Into Little Bits”: Engineering Social Order / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- Survey and Mediation in Fingoland / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- The Notional Republic / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- “Before, the Entire Land Was Ramabulana” / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- The Fall and Rise of Mphephu / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- Objections and Objectives: SANAC, the Tsewu Case, and the Land Act / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- Bibliography / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- Index / Lindsay Frederick Braun.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913 , Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The precision of surveyors and other colonial technicians lent these enterprises an illusion of irreproachable objectivity and authority, even though the reality was far messier. Using a wide range of archival and printed materials from survey departments, repositories, and libraries, the author presents two distinct episodes of struggle over lands and livelihoods, one from the Eastern Cape and one from the former northern Transvaal. These cases expose the contingencies, contests, and negotiations that fundamentally shaped these changing South African landscapes.
• Titolo autorizzato: Colonial survey and native landscapes in rural South Africa, 1850-1913
• ISBN: 90-04-28229-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910520107503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: African social studies series ; ; Volume 33.