Collective Violence and the Agrarian Origins of South African Apartheid, 19001948 [Hardcover]

This book examines violence against the rural African population and Africans in general before apartheid became the justification for the existence of the South African state.This book examines the dark odyssey of official and private collective violence against the rural African population and Africans in general during the two generations before apartheid became the primary justification for the existence of the South African state.This book examines the dark odyssey of official and private collective violence against the rural African population and Africans in general during the two generations before apartheid became the primary justification for the existence of the South African state.This book examines the dark odyssey of official and private collective violence against the rural African population and Africans in general during the two generations before apartheid became the primary justification for the existence of the South African state. John Higginson discusses how Africans fought back against the entire spectrum of violence ranged against them, demonstrating just how contingent apartheid was on the struggle to hijack the future of the African majority.Part I. The Ashes of Defeat: 1. Introduction; 2. The etiology of guerrilla organization in the western Transvaal, July 1900 to December 1902; 3. Peonage or empire?: the reconstruction of white supremacy; 4. Milnerism, the Chinese labor experiment, and the advent of Het Volk; Part II. Sidestepping the King's Writ: 5. Ministering to the dry bones of white supremacy: from union and the 1913 Natives Land Act to the 1914 rebellion; 6. A glass brimming over: the failed 1914 rebellion in Rustenburg and Marico; 7. Turbulent cities, smoldering countryside, 191422; 8. After the rebellion, before the pact, 191924; Part III. A Hoofdliere or Boere Republic?: 9. The pact, the depression, and the stillborn republic, 192433; 10. A thousand little Hoofdlier, 193448; Epilogue. From the epochal devastation of the SoutlÃ/