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xv, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-310) and index. |
| Contents |
I. Setting: Climate, Geography, and People in South Africa -- II. Early Conflict and Interdependence: The Khoesan, the Xhosa, and the Establishment and Expansion of the Cape Colony -- III. British and the Expanding Cape: Continuities and Contrasts -- IV. Making of New States -- V. Africans, Afrikaners, and the British in the Interior, 1830-1870 -- VI. First Phase of South African Industrialization -- VII. Second Phase of South African Industrialization: Gold Mining and the Creation of a Unified White State -- VIII. From Union to Apartheid: The Consolidation of a White State and the Rise of African Opposition, 1910-1948 -- IX. Apartheid and South African Society -- X. African Transformation of South Africa, 1976-1994 -- XI. New South Africa, 1994-Present. |
| Summary |
"The Making of South Africa: Culture and Politics synthesizes the author's insights with the latest scholarship in South African history in a highly readable and comprehensive text, ideal as the foundation for undergraduate and graduate courses on South African and African history. The book features detailed maps, photographs, and teaching supplements such as questions for students to consider, and an annotated list of recommended readings for each chapter. It also provides an up-to-date list of reviewed Internet sites that students and faculty can explore. The book covers South African history from the earliest foundations of human communities, through the era of segregation and apartheid of the most recent developments in post-apartheid politics and the HIV/AIDS crisis."--BOOK JACKET. |
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South Africa -- History.
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South Africa -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
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South Africa. (OCoLC)fst01204616
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0130406813 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780130406811 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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