The Cambridge History of South Africa 2 Volume Set The Cambridge History of South Africa Book
The Cambridge History of South Africa 2 Volume Set The Cambridge History of South Africa
Author: Robert Ross,Anne Kelk Mager,Bill NassonPublisher: Cambridge University PressCategory: African History, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000Book Format: HardcoverThis book surveys South African history from the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late nineteenth century to the first democratic elections in 1994. Written by many of the leading historians of the country, it pulls together four decades of scholarship to present a detailed overview of South Africa during the twentieth century. It covers political, economic, social and intellectual developments and their interconnections in a clear and objective manner. This book, the second of two volumes, represents an important reassessment of all the major historical events, developments and records of South Africa and will be an important new tool for students and professors of African history worldwide, as well as the basis for further development and research.
Table Of Contents
Introduction Anne Kelk Mager, Bill Nasson and Robert Ross; 1. South Africa and South Africans: nationality, belonging, citizenship Saul Dubow; 2. Imperialism, settler identities, and colonial capitalism: the hundred year origins of the 1899 South African War Stanley Trapido; 3. Class, culture, and consciousness in South Africa, 1880-1899 Shula Marks; 4. War and union, 1899-1910 Shula Marks; 5. The union years, 1910-1948: political and economic foundations Bill Freund; 6. South African society and culture, 1910-1948 Philip Bonner; 7. The apartheid project, 1948-1970 Deborah Posel; 8. Popular responses to apartheid, 1948-c.1975 Anne Kelk Mager and Maanda Mulaudzi; 9. Resistance and reform, 1973-1994 Tom Lodge; 10. The evolution of the South African population in the twentieth century Charles Simkins; 11. The economy and poverty in the twentieth century Nicoli Nattrass and Jeremy Seekings; 12. Modernity, culture, and nation Tlhalo Sam Raditlhalo; 13. Environment, heritage, resistance, and health: newer historiographical directions Albert Grundlingh, Howard Philips, Christopher Saunders and Sandra Swart.About Robert Ross
Robert Ross received a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1974 and has worked since then at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He has written seven books, including A Concise History of South Africa and Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony: A Tragedy of Manners, both published by Cambridge University Press in 1999. Anne Kelk Mager has worked at the University of Cape Town since receiving a Ph.D. in 1995. Gender and the Making of a South African Bantustan: A Social History of the Ciskei, 1945-1959, her first book, was published in 1999; her second book, Beer, Sociability and Masculinity in South Africa, was published in 2010. Bill Nasson was educated at the Universities of Hull, York and Cambridge. After spending many years at the University of Cape Town, he now works at the University of Stellenbosch. The most recent of his books is The War for South Africa: The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 (2010). He is an editor of the International Encyclopaedia of the First World War.(BK-9780521869836)
| SKU | BK-9780521869836 |
| Barcode # | 9780521869836 |
| Brand | Cambridge University Press |
| Artist / Author | Robert Ross, Anne Kelk Mager, Bill Nasson |
| Shipping Weight | 1.1300kg |
| Shipping Width | 0.160m |
| Shipping Height | 0.050m |
| Shipping Length | 0.230m |
| Assembled Length | 23.100m |
| Assembled Height | 4.800m |
| Assembled Width | 15.500m |
| Type | Hardcover |
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