Mining camp to metropolis: Reflections on the historiography of Johannesburg

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1980-02-25

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Kennedy, B. E.

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Like most mining towns that survive, Johannesburg and its citizens have over the years sponsored many commemorative chronicles that celebrate its beginnings, spectacular growth, and the pioneers. … It was not until 1938, however, that the first serious study of Johannesburg as an 'urban experiment' was published.

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African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 25 February, 1980

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Historiography. South Africa. Johannesburg

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