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Adam Kok's Griquas: A Study in the Development of Stratification in South Africa
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Adam Kok's Griquas: A Study in the Development of Stratification in South Africa Hardcover - 1977

by Robert Ross


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This book examines the ways in which racial and economic stratification were brought to coincide in pre-industrial South Africa by describing in detail the history of one group, the Griquas of Philippolis and Kokstad. These people, of very mixed origins, were central, both physically and symbolically, to the processes of South African history in the nineteenth century. They were able to gain control over a very large area of the southern Orange Free State, where they established what was, for a time, a prosperous little state. Very many Griquas became Christian, although this did not mean that they were dominated by the missionaries - rather the reverse. A substantial number were literate. Moreover, they made use of all possible means of developing their own wealth, first as ivory hunters and then as successful horse and sheep ranchers. In short, they fulfilled all the criteria for acceptance into the ruling class of white South Africa. except that they were not white.

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  • Title Adam Kok's Griquas: A Study in the Development of Stratification in South Africa
  • Author Robert Ross
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date January 28, 1977
  • ISBN 9780521211994 / 0521211999
  • Library of Congress subjects Griquas, Kok, Adam
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 75043368
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.896
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Adam Kok's Griquas: A Study in the Development of Stratification in South Africa (African Studies) (Volume 21)

by Ross, Robert

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Cambridge University Press, 1976. Volume 21. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0521211999
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