Ekurhuleni: The Making of an Urban Region by Bonner, Phil

Ekurhuleni: The Making of an Urban Region (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781868145430)

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Ekurhuleni: The Making of an Urban Region by Bonner, Phil

Ekurhuleni: The Making of an Urban Region

$35.00
Ekurhuleni: The Making of an Urban Region by Bonner, Phil

Ekurhuleni: The Making of an Urban Region

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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The first academic work to provide an historical account and explanation of the development of this extended region to the east of Johannesburg since its origins at the end of the nineteenth century. From the time of the discovery of gold and coal until the turn of the twenty-first century, the region comprised a number of distinctive towns, all with their own histories. In 2000, these towns were amalgamated into a single metropolitan area, but, unlike its counterparts across the country, it does not cohere around a single identity. Drawing on a significant body of academic work as well as original research by the authors, the book traces and examines some of the salient historical strands that constituted what was formerly known as the East Rand and suggests that, notwithstanding important differences between towns and the racial fragmentation generated by apartheid, the region's history contains significant common features. Arguably, its centrality as a major mining area and then as the country's engineering heartland gave Ekurhuleni an overarching distinctive economic character.

Author: Phil Bonner,Noor Nieftagodien
ISBN-10: 1868145433
ISBN-13: 9781868145430
Publisher: Wits University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2012
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.50h x 7.80w x 0.70d
By Phil Bonner
By Phil Bonner
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Philip Bonner is a professor of history at the University of the Witwatersrand and holds the NRF Chair in Local Histories and Present Realities. He was historical consultant and executive producer to the six-part documentary television series Soweto: A History, and the coauthor of the book of the same title. He was cocurator of the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. Noor Nieftagodien serves as the deputy chair of the History Workshop and is a senior lecturer in the history department at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He is the coauthor of Orlando West, Soweto. They are the coauthors of Alexandra: A History. Sello Mathabatha is the author of The Struggle over Education in Northern Transvaal.

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