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South Africa : a modern history / T.R.H. Davenport.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Johannesburg : Macmillian South Africa, 1987.Edition: 3rd ed., updated and extensively revDescription: xxiv, 692 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780869542620
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 968
Contents:
The prelude to white domination. The earliest South Africans. The birth of a plural society. The enlightment and the Great Trek. African chiefdoms. Boer Republics. British colonies. White and black : the struggle for land. Empire and Republic : the breaking of Boer independence 1850 - 1902. The shaping of white dominion. Union under stress : Botha and Smuts 1910 - 1924. The Afrikaner's road to parity : Hertzog 1924 - 1933. White unity, black division 1933 1939. Smuts and the Liberal-nationalist confrontation 1939 - 1948. The age of the social engineers 1948 - 1960. Internal combustion 1956 1964. Modification and backfire 1964 1978. At the crossroads 1978 1985. Salesmanship : Ethnasia contra mundum 1945 - 1985. The economy and the people of South Africa. The cancer of apartheid.
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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 588-655.

The prelude to white domination. The earliest South Africans. The birth of a plural society. The enlightment and the Great Trek. African chiefdoms. Boer Republics. British colonies. White and black : the struggle for land. Empire and Republic : the breaking of Boer independence 1850 - 1902. The shaping of white dominion. Union under stress : Botha and Smuts 1910 - 1924. The Afrikaner's road to parity : Hertzog 1924 - 1933. White unity, black division 1933 1939. Smuts and the Liberal-nationalist confrontation 1939 - 1948. The age of the social engineers 1948 - 1960. Internal combustion 1956 1964. Modification and backfire 1964 1978. At the crossroads 1978 1985. Salesmanship : Ethnasia contra mundum 1945 - 1985. The economy and the people of South Africa. The cancer of apartheid.

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