Worden The Making of Modern South Africa

Conquest, Apartheid, Democracy
5. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5540-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Historical Association Studies

The new edition of The Making of Modern South Africaprovides a comprehensive, current introduction to the key themesand debates concerning the history of this controversial country.Engagingly written, the author provides a sharp, analyticaloverview of the new South Africa.
* Examines the major issues in South Africa's history, frompre-colonial to present, including colonial conquest; theestablishment of racism, segregation, and apartheid; resistancemovements; and the eventual founding of democracy
* Contains an additional final chapter that takes the story tothe present and considers the challenges and compromises of thefirst two decades of democracy
* Updated with material on post-apartheid era and current issuesin South Africa
* The only book that gives direct guidance to bibliographicalmaterial and readings on key debates
* Provides a sharp, analytical overview of the new SouthAfrica
* Extensive references are given to the key writings on eachtopic and the debates between scholars

Autoren/Hrsg.

Worden, Nigel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps x
Outline Chronology xi
Acknowledgments xviii
Acronyms xix
1 Introduction: The Changing History of South Africa1
2 The Conquest of the Land 9
3 Changes in Town and Countryside 39
4 White Supremacy, Segregation and Apartheid 73
5 The Heyday of Apartheid 104
6 The Decline and Fall of Apartheid 131
7 The 'New South Africa' 156
Bibliography 170
Index 194

Über Autor(innen)

Nigel Worden is King George V Professor of History at the University of Cape Town. He was previously Research Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge and Lecturer in Commonwealth History at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Slavery in Dutch South Africa (1985) and numerous books and articles on the history of early colonial South Africa. An edited collection, Between East and West: Social Identities in Eighteenth Century Cape Town is due for publication in 2012.