Title:
Johannesburg : the making and shaping of the city
Author:
Beavon, Keith Sidney Orrock.
ISBN:
9781868883035
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Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Pretoria : University of South Africa Press ; Leiden, Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill, ©2004.
Physical Description:
xix, 373 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series:
Imagined South Africa
Imagined South Africa.
Contents:
Introduction -- foundation years : from mining camp to major city 1886-1900 -- White consolidation and 'temporary black sojourners' : the 'sanitation' phase 1900-1940 -- Separation in the veld : the making and character of Soweto 1940-1976 -- Upward and outward expansion of the white city and the apartheid era : 1948-1976 -- In the political whirlwind : Johannesburg and Soweto 1976-1990 -- new Johannesburg, 1991-2003 : a city in flux -- geology of the Witwatersrand and the origin of the gold.
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