Settler colonialism and land rights in South Africa : possession and dispossession on the Orange River /

This local history of Griqua Philippolis (1824-1862) and Afrikaner Orania (1990-2013) gets at the crux of the ever-pertinent land question in South Africa. Identifying the many layers of dispossession definitive of the South African past, the book presents a provocative new argument about land right...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cavanagh, Edward
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:
Land settlement > South Africa > Orania.
Land settlement > South Africa > Philippolis.
Land tenure > South Africa > Orania.
Land tenure > South Africa > Philippolis.
Afrikaners > Land tenure > South Africa > Orania.
Griquas > Land tenure > South Africa > Philippolis.
Colonisation intérieure > Afrique du Sud > Orania.
Colonisation intérieure > Afrique du Sud > Philippolis.
Afrikaners > Terres > Afrique du Sud > Orania.
Griquas > Terres > Afrique du Sud > Philippolis.
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism > Southern Africa.
African history > Southern Africa.
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 > Southern Africa.
Colonialism & imperialism > Southern Africa.
HISTORY > Modern > 19th Century.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
HISTORY > Africa > South > Republic of South Africa.
HISTORY > Social History.
LAW > Legal History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
History.
Land settlement
Land tenure
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism > Southern Africa > c 1500 onwards to present day.
African history > Southern Africa > c 1500 onwards to present day.
Colonialism & imperialism > Southern Africa > c 1500 onwards to present day.
South Africa > Orania
South Africa > Philippolis
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Land, Sovereignty, and Indigeneity in South Africa
  • 1. The Erasure of Past Interests in Land at Philippolis
  • 2. The Griqua Land Regime and its Challenges
  • 3. The Erasure of Past Interests in Land at Orania
  • 4. The Oranian Land Regime and its Challenges
  • Conclusion: Land Regimes and Property Rights on the Orange River
  • Afterword: On Restitution and Dispossession.

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