A History of South Africa
Title | A History of South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Monteath Thompson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 332 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300065428 |
Reexamines the history of South Africa, traces the development of apartheid, and describes the anti-apartheid movement
History of Southern Africa
Title | History of Southern Africa PDF eBook |
Author | John D. Omer-Cooper |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Africa, Southern |
ISBN | 9780852550106 |
History of South Africa. Includes information about Namibia and the native races.
The History of Southern Africa
Title | The History of Southern Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Amy McKenna Senior Editor, Geography and History |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2011-01-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 161530312X |
This book examines the history of southern Africa, including an overview of each of the countries that comprise that area of the continent.
A Short History of South Africa
Title | A Short History of South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Nattrass |
Publisher | Biteback Publishing |
Total Pages | 262 |
Release | 2017-11-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1785903683 |
South Africa is popularly perceived as the most influential nation in Africa – a gateway to an entire continent for finance, trade and politics, and a crucial mediator in its neighbours' affairs. On the other hand, post-Apartheid dreams of progress and reform have, in part, collapsed into a morass of corruption, unemployment and criminal violence. A Short History of South Africa is a brief, general account of the history of this most complicated and fascinating country – from the first evidence of hominid existence to the wars of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries that led to the establishment of modern South Africa, the horrors of Apartheid and the optimism following its collapse, as well as the prospects and challenges for the future. This readable and thorough account, illustrated with maps and photographs, is the culmination of a lifetime of researching and teaching the broad spectrum of South African history. Nattrass's passion for her subject shines through, whether she is elucidating the reader on early humans in the cradle of humankind, or describing the tumultuous twentieth-century processes that shaped the democracy that is South Africa today.
South Africa in World History
Title | South Africa in World History PDF eBook |
Author | Iris Berger |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2009-03-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199887586 |
This volume begins in the early centuries of the Common Era with the various groups of people who had settled in southern Africa. Stone Age foragers, farmers with iron technology, and pastoralists all interacted to create a complex society before Europeans arrived. In the seventeenth century, Dutch settlers developed a colonial society based on the menial labor of indigenous inhabitants of the Cape and slaves imported from the East Indies and other parts of Africa. British conquest in the early nineteenth century brought an end to slavery, as well as new forms of colonial domination, tension between the British and the original Dutch settlers, armed struggle between expanding European communities and Africans (including the highly militarized Zulu kingdom), and intensive missionary activity that transformed many African societies. The discovery of diamonds and gold in the late nineteenth century brought industrialization based on migrant labor, new clashes between British and Africaaners, the final conquest of African societies, and new European migrants. During the twentieth-century, despite further economic development, African communities were increasingly impoverished. New forms of racial domination lead to the implementation of apartheid in 1948 and heightened political organizing among both African and Africaaner nationalists. The intensification of resistance in the 1970s and '80s coupled with drastic changes in the international balance of power brought an end to the apartheid state in 1994 and an intensified struggle to overcome apartheid's economic and political legacy by building a new nonracial society. The book emphasizes social and cultural history, focusing on people's interactions and identities according to race, class, gender, religion and ethnicity. It also addresses changes in literature (both oral and written), music, and the arts and draws on the extensive biographical and autobiographical literature to provide a personal focus for the discussion of major themes. While this emphasis reflects dominant trends in historical scholarship for the past two decades, it also includes recent material on environmental history and relationships between African Americans and South Africans. Where relevant, it highlights comparisons between South African and U.S. history.
History of South Africa
Title | History of South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Thula Simpson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 614 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | South Africa |
ISBN | 9781776095865 |
History of Southern Africa
Title | History of Southern Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Shillington |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 72 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Africa, Southern |
ISBN |