The Culture of Power in Southern Africa: Essays on State Formation and the Political Imagination
This collection of essays significantly refines the way we think about state and society in the British Southern Africa of the 19th and 20th centuries, from the conquest of the Transkei and Natal to contemporary Botswana and Zimbabwe. The essays embody a range of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, history, and historical sociology. Yet they share a set of theoretical and empirical concerns united by an interesting understanding the culture of power and the power of culture, at Africa's southern tip.
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The Culture of Power in Southern Africa: Essays on State Formation and the Political Imagination
This collection of essays significantly refines the way we think about state and society in the British Southern Africa of the 19th and 20th centuries, from the conquest of the Transkei and Natal to contemporary Botswana and Zimbabwe. The essays embody a range of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, history, and historical sociology. Yet they share a set of theoretical and empirical concerns united by an interesting understanding the culture of power and the power of culture, at Africa's southern tip.
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The Culture of Power in Southern Africa: Essays on State Formation and the Political Imagination

The Culture of Power in Southern Africa: Essays on State Formation and the Political Imagination

by Clifton C. Crais
The Culture of Power in Southern Africa: Essays on State Formation and the Political Imagination

The Culture of Power in Southern Africa: Essays on State Formation and the Political Imagination

by Clifton C. Crais

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This collection of essays significantly refines the way we think about state and society in the British Southern Africa of the 19th and 20th centuries, from the conquest of the Transkei and Natal to contemporary Botswana and Zimbabwe. The essays embody a range of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, history, and historical sociology. Yet they share a set of theoretical and empirical concerns united by an interesting understanding the culture of power and the power of culture, at Africa's southern tip.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780325070841
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 03/17/2003
Series: Social History of Africa
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Clifton C. Crais is Professor of History at Kenyon College.

Table of Contents

IllustrationsMAPS1Political Map of Southern Africa 52Eastern Cape Region, South Africa 313Natal and Zululand 704Zimbabwe 186
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