Chiefs or Modern Bureaucrats? Managing Black Police in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2108690 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith Shear (0000-0002-0564-6279, University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 251-274 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417512000035 |
| OpenAlex | W1964330673 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 34 |
Early twentieth-century South Africa was a composite society-'part settler state and part African colony ... includ[ing] diverse recently conquered African polities as well as a divided white population.' Mining industrialization and British imperialism, particularly after the discovery of substantial gold deposits and the founding of Johannesburg in 1886, put pressure on southern African peoples and states to function as an integrated labor market, and on their leaders to submit to an overarching political authority. These developmental and administrative rationalizing forces were given greater scope in the years following the South African War of 1899 to 1902, especially in the defeated Boer republics of the interior. Renamed the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies, these territories were initially under the direct rule of British High Commissioner Alfred Milner. They took the lead in a process of state-building that continued well beyond their political amalgamation with the coastal colonies of the Cape and Natal to form the Union of South Africa in 1910. It has been argued that this institutional reconstruction left South Africa with 'a modern civil service, with controls and an information-gathering capacity sophisticated enough to ... make the competence, helpfulness, and honesty of individual state officials relatively less crucial
Cape · Colonialism · Economic history · Geography · Honesty · Industrialisation · Political science · Politics · Population · Proletarianization · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science · African history and culture studies · History · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · South African History and Culture
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Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa (Social History of Africa Series)
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Migrant Labour in South Africa's Mining Economy
Revival and rebellion in colonial central Africa
White Chief, Black Lords
The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth Century South Africa
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Legal Liberalism, Statutory Despotism and State Power in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
Britain, Rhodesia and South Africa, 1900-45
Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa
The Maintenance of Law and Order in British Colonial Africa
The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth-Century South Africa
Coping with the Contradictions
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Migrant Labour in South Africa's Mining Economy
Chiefs and Everyday Governance
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Citizen and Subject
The Emergence of Modern South Africa
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |