The Culture of Power in Southern Africa: Essays on State Formation and the Political Imagination

by Clifton C. Crais, Crais, Clifton Crais

Book Overview

This collection of essays significantly refines the way we think about state and society in the British Southern Africa of the 19th and 20th centuries, from the conquest of the Transkei and Natal to contemporary Botswana and Zimbabwe. The essays embody a range of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, history, and historical sociology. Yet they share a set of theoretical and empirical concerns united by an interesting understanding the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325070849
• ISBN13: 9780325070841
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"