The Cambridge History of South Africa

This book pulls together four decades of scholarship to present a detailed overview of South Africa during the twentieth century.

Robert Ross (Edited by), Anne Kelk Mager (Edited by), Bill Nasson (Edited by)

9780521869836, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 August 2011

736 pages, 16 b/w illus. 6 maps 18 tables
23.7 x 16.7 x 4.3 cm, 1.1 kg

This 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.

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.

Subject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], African history [HBJH]