Cradock: How Segregation and Apartheid Came to a South African Town by Jeffrey B

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Cradock

by Jeffrey Butler, Richard Elphick, Jeannette Hopkins

Provides a vivid history of a middle-sized South African town in the years when segregation gradually emerged, preceding the rapid and rigorous implementation of apartheid. Although the author was born and raised in Cradock, he avoids sentimentality and offers an ambitious treatment of the racial themes that dominate recent South African history through the details of one emblematic community.

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Publisher Description

Cradock, the product of more than twenty years of research by Jeffrey Butler, is a vivid history of a middle-sized South African town in the years when segregation gradually emerged, preceding the rapid and rigorous implementation of apartheid. Although Butler was born and raised in Cradock, he avoids sentimentality and offers an ambitious treatment of the racial themes that dominate recent South African history through the details of one emblematic community. Augmenting the obvious political narrative, Cradock examines poor infrastructural conditions that typify a grossly unequal system of racial segregation but otherwise neglected in the region's historiography. Butler shows, with the richness that only a local study could provide, how the lives of blacks, whites, and mixed-race coloureds were affected by the bitter transition from segregation before 1948 to apartheid thereafter.

Author Biography

The late Jeffrey Butler, Professor of History Emeritus at Wesleyan University and esteemed historian of southern Africa, was the author of The Liberal Party and the Jameson Raid.

Richard Elphick is Professor of History at Wesleyan University.

The late Jeannette Hopkins was Director of the Wesleyan University Press.

Review

"A fine microstudy of South Africa's transition from segregation to apartheid, this detailed case study of what happened in one small town throws important light on the trajectory of the country as a whole."--Chris Saunders, University of Cape Town, author of The Making of the South African Past: Historians on Race and Class
"This elegantly written volume provides much food for thought. Above all, its detail and the depth of the research gives us fresh insights into the importance of local history, for this careful study makes us recognise that close observation may lead us to modify our generalizations."-- "Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa"
[T]his elegantly written volume provides much food for thought. Above all, its detail and the depth of the research gives us fresh insights into the importance of local history, for this careful study makes us recognise that close observation may lead us to modify our generalisations.-- "Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa"
The struggle for power in twentieth-century South Africa has most often been told as a struggle between the black and white populations and of their competing visions for the future. But alongside this struggle was a struggle between the center and the periphery, and a competition for control over local resources in the here and now. By plotting Cradock's history along both these axes, Butler has produced a text rich in insight and with conclusions on the changing dynamics of state power that extend far beyond this small locale.-- "African Studies Quarterly"

Long Description

Cradock, the product of more than twenty years of research by Jeffrey Butler, is a vivid history of a middle-sized South African town in the years when segregation gradually emerged, preceding the rapid and rigorous implementation of apartheid. Although Butler was born and raised in Cradock, he avoids sentimentality and offers an ambitious treatment of the racial themes that dominate recent South African history through the details of one emblematic community. Augmenting the obvious political narrative, Cradock examines poor infrastructural conditions that typify a grossly unequal system of racial segregation but otherwise neglected in the region's historiography. Butler shows, with the richness that only a local study could provide, how the lives of blacks, whites, and mixed-race coloreds were affected by the bitter transition from segregation before 1948 to apartheid thereafter.

Review Quote (previous edition)

" "A fine microstudy of South Africa's transition from segregation to apartheid, this detailed case study of what happened in one small town throws important light on the trajectory of the country as a whole." "--Chris Saunders, University of Cape Town; author of The Making of the South African Past: Historians on Race and Class

Review Quote

"This elegantly written volume provides much food for thought. Above all, its detail and the depth of the research gives us fresh insights into the importance of local history, for this careful study makes us recognise that close observation may lead us to modify our generalizations."

Description for Reader

The late Jeffrey Butler, Professor of History Emeritus at Wesleyan University and esteemed historian of southern Africa, was the author of The Liberal Party and the Jameson Raid. Richard Elphick is Professor of History at Wesleyan University. The late Jeannette Hopkins was Director of the Wesleyan University Press.

Details ISBN0813940583 Author Jeannette Hopkins Pages 272 Publisher University of Virginia Press Series Reconsiderations in Southern African History Year 2017 ISBN-10 0813940583 ISBN-13 9780813940588 Format Hardcover Imprint University of Virginia Press Subtitle How Segregation and Apartheid Came to a South African Town Place of Publication Charlottesville Country of Publication United States Illustrations 23 black & white illustrations, 9 maps, 5 tables Edited by Jeannette Hopkins DEWEY 305.8009687560904 Short Title Cradock Language English AU Release Date 2017-12-28 NZ Release Date 2017-12-28 UK Release Date 2017-12-30 Publication Date 2017-12-30 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2017-12-30

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  • Condition: Brand New
  • ISBN-13: 9780813940588
  • Book Title: Cradock
  • ISBN: 9780813940588
  • Publication Year: 2017
  • Type: Textbook
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Language: English
  • Publication Name: Cradock: How Segregation and Apartheid Came to a South African Town
  • Item Height: 229mm
  • Author: Jeffrey Butler
  • Publisher: University of Virginia Press
  • Item Width: 152mm
  • Subject: Anthropology, History
  • Number of Pages: 272 Pages

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