History of South Africa
Author: Thula Simpson
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9781776095865
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Thula Simpson
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9781776095865
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Leonard Monteath Thompson
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780300065428
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reexamines the history of South Africa, traces the development of apartheid, and describes the anti-apartheid movement
Author: Gail Nattrass
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2017-11-16
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1785903683
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Iris Berger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-03-27
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0199887586
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Roger B. Beck
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780313360893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To quote the title of Nelson Mandela's 1994 autobiography, it has been a long walk to freedom. The history of South Africa, one of the oldest inhabited places on earth, is also the story of one of the newest nations, made and remade over the last century. This compellingly written history of South Africa, from prehistoric times through 1999, is the only up-to-date history of the nation. Beginning with an overview of the modern nation, this narrative history traces South Africa from prehistory through the European invasions, the settlement by Dutch, the imposition of British rule, the many internecine wars for control of the nation, the institution of apartheid, and, finally, freedom for all South Africans in 1994 and the Mandela years 1994-1999. Twin themes of colonial rule and racism intertwine over the course of the last three hundred and fifty years. Beck, a specialist in the history of South Africa, illuminates the conflicts, personalities, and tragedies of South African history over this period, culminating in the end of apartheid in 1994, the release from prison of Nelson Mandela, and his formation of a new government. Brief sketches of key people in the history of South Africa, a glossary of terms, maps, and a bibliographic essay of suggested reading complete the work. Every library should update its resources on South Africa with this engagingly written and authoritative history.
Author: Hermann Buhr Giliomee
Publisher: Tafelberg
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'SA is one of the few regions of the world where humans have lived continuously for nearly two million years' - the New History of South Africa offers an account of all these people.-The Weekender
Author: Amy McKenna Senior Editor, Geography and History
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2011-01-15
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 161530312X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the history of southern Africa, including an overview of each of the countries that comprise that area of the continent.
Author: Leonard Monteath Thompson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0300087764
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents a comprehensive history of the country, from its earliest human settlements, to events prior to European colonisation, to the Dutch occupation and the years of apartheid, to its success in becoming an independent nation.
Author: M. Eze
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0230109691
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In examining the intellectual history in contemporary South Africa, Eze engages with the emergence of ubuntu as one discourse that has become a mirror and aftermath of South Africa s overall historical narrative. This book interrogates a triple socio-political representation of ubuntu as a displacement narrative for South Africa s colonial consciousness; as offering a new national imaginary through its inclusive consciousness, in which different, competing, and often antagonistic memories and histories are accommodated; and as offering a historicity in which the past is transformed as a symbol of hope for the present and the future. This book offers a model for African intellectual history indignant to polemics but constitutive of creative historicism and healthy humanism.
Author: C. H. Feinstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-06-23
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780521850919
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines five hundred years of South African economic history.