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

by Robert Ross and Robert Ross

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521102332
• ISBN13: 9780521102339
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"