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Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa: Possession and Dispossession on the Orange River
β Scribed by Edward Cavanagh (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 179
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Land, Sovereignty, and Indigeneity in South Africa....Pages 1-23
The Erasure of Past Interests in Land at Philippolis....Pages 24-39
The Griqua Land Regime and Its Challenges....Pages 40-61
The Erasure of Past Interests in Land at Orania....Pages 62-73
The Oranian Land Regime and Its Challenges....Pages 74-89
Conclusion: Land Regimes and Property Rights on the Orange River....Pages 90-100
Afterword: On Restitution and Dispossession....Pages 101-118
Back Matter....Pages 119-164
β¦ Subjects
Modern History; African History; Imperialism and Colonialism; Political History; Social History; World History, Global and Transnational History
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