Bureaucracy and race : native administration in South Africa /
The common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion is overturned in Ivan Evans's searching study. Without understating the role of violent intervention, Evans shows that apartheid was supported by a great and ever-swelling bureaucracy. The Departm...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1997.
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Colección: | Perspectives on Southern Africa ;
53. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion is overturned in Ivan Evans's searching study. Without understating the role of violent intervention, Evans shows that apartheid was supported by a great and ever-swelling bureaucracy. The Department of Native Affairs (DNA), which had dwindled during the last years of the segregation regime into a neglected outpost staffed by liberals, unexpectedly revived and became the arrogant, authoritarian fortress of apartheid. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 403 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-382) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520918245 052091824X 0585047766 9780585047768 9780520206519 0520206517 |