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Book SynopsisA survey of the whole of South African history from pre-colonial times to 1999, suitable for serious students of the subject. It handles all major topics, with special focus on the dramatic changes that have occured since 1990.
Trade Review'This work is a remarkable tour de force; to have managed to deal so brilliantly within the compass of a few hundred pages with the fascinating history of South Africa from prehistoric times right up to the second democratic elections of that beloved country'. - the Most Reverend Desmond Tutu, Emeritus Archbishop of Cape Town
'Probably the best one-volume work on the subject yet published.' - Marcel Berlins, The Times Educational Supplement
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Maps List of Tables Foreword by Reverend Desmond Tutu Preface List of Acronyms PART ONE: THE PRELUDE TO WHITE DOMINATION Section I: THE SETTING OF THE HUMAN PEOPLE From the Dawn of History to the Time of Troubles The Birth of a Plural Society The Enlightenment and the Great Trek Section II: CHIEFDOMS, REPUBLICS AND COLONIES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY African Chiefdoms Boer Republics British Colonies Section III: THE STRUGGLE FOR POSSESSION White and Black: The Struggle for Land Empire and Republics: The Breaking of Boer Independence, 1850-1902 The Shaping of a White Dominion PART TWO: THE CONSOLIDATION OF A WHITE STATE Section I: THE ROAD TO AFRIKANER DOMINANCE Union under Stress: Botha and Smuts, 1910-24 The Afrikaner's Road to Parity: Hertzog, 1924-33 White Unity, Black Division, 1933-9 Smuts and the Liberal-Nationalist Confrontation, 1939-48 Section II: The Age of the Social Engineers The Trek Into the Wilderness, 1948-60 Internal Combustion, 1956-64 Modification and Backfire, 1964-78 At the Crossroads, 1978-90 Salesmanship: Ethnasia contra mundum, 1945-90 Section III: A Search for a Promised Land Towards the Sharing of Power Towards the Sharing of South Africa Body, Mind and Spirit: a Quest for Humane Values Appendix Tables: Heads of State, 1652-1998 Party Representation in the Assembly, 1910-98 Bibliographical Notes Index
