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Author Braun, Lindsay Frederick.

Title 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
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 410 pages) : $$b illustrations
Series African social studies series ; volume 33
African social studies series ; v. 33.
Contents Introduction: the construction of colonial terrritory -- PART 1. Imagining lands without chiefs. Redefining land and location in the Eastern Cape -- "Cut into little bits": engineering social order -- Survey and mediation in Fingoland -- PART 2. Locating the enduring kingdom. The notional republic. "Before, the entire land was ramabulana" -- The Fall and Rise of Mphephu -- Objections and objectives: SANAC, the Tsewu case, and the land act
Summary "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."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-399) and index
Notes Resource, viewed September 29, 2020
Subject Black people -- Land tenure -- South Africa
Real property -- South Africa
Land tenure -- South Africa
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Black people -- Land tenure
Land tenure
Politics and government
Race relations
Real property
SUBJECT South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1836-1909. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125488
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1909-1948. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125490
South Africa -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Subject South Africa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9004282297
9789004282292
9781322293806
1322293805