Ekurhuleni : The making of an urban region /

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Ekurhuleni: The Making of an Urban Region is the first academic work to provide an historical account and explanation of the development of this extended region to the east of Johannesburg since its origins at the end of the 19th century. From the time of the discovery of gold and coal until the tur...

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Autores principales: Bonner, P. L. (Autor), Mathabatha, Sello (Autor), Nieftagodien, Noor (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politics and government.
HISTORY > Africa > General.
South Africa > Ekurhuleni.
Ekurhuleni (South Africa) > Politics and government.
Ekurhuleni (South Africa) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tracing the contours of Ekurhuleni
  • White workers and their struggles, 1907-1924
  • Constructing black Ekurhuleni, 1890-1927
  • Ekurhuleni's insubordinate women, 1918-1945
  • Social worlds and social strains in industrializing Ekurhuleni
  • Squatter camps and immigrant culture
  • Turning point 1940s
  • The first steps in social engineering, reconfiguring space
  • Black politics in Ekurhuleni in the mid-1950s
  • Making of a modern economy
  • Apartheid's heyday in Ekurhuleni
  • The student movement of 1976
  • Ekurhuleni and the struggle against apartheid
  • A time of insurrection
  • Politics of the stalemate
  • The politics of transition
  • City of fragments
  • Informal and contentious city.

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