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Author Cavanagh, Edward

Title Settler colonialism and land rights in South Africa : possession and dispossession on the Orange River / Edward Cavanagh
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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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
Summary 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 rights and the residues of settler colonialism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject 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
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.
History.
South Africa -- Orania
South Africa -- Philippolis
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137305770
1137305770