From Colonization to Democracy: A New Historical Geography of South Africa

by Alan Lester

Overview

This account of the development of modern South African society seeks to establish the geographical and historical context in which change has taken place. The author describes important historical continuities in South Africa which have shaped present society, including social groupings and their stratification, policital institutions, the patterns of human geography, economic structure, and external links and influences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780755632015
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/31/1998
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	294
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Alan Lester is Lecturer in Geography at St. Mary's University College, University of Surrey. He has researched and taught extensively in South Africa.

Table of Contents

The foundation of a society; colonial expansion, industrialization and Afrikanerdom; the germination of a system; the formulation of a structure; adaptations and contradictions; the reformulation of a structure; policy and reality; the changing South Africa state.

Editorial Reviews

Geographer Lester puts forth an explanation for the evolution of contemporary South African society and its spatial configuration, tracing the course of social and ideological formation and adaptation over the past three and a half centuries. Particularly notes the ongoing academic disagreement over the relationship between capitalism as a mode of production and apartheid's racial structures. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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