TY - BOOK AU - MacKinnon,Aran S. TI - The making of South Africa: culture and politics SN - 9780205795499 (alk. paper) AV - DT1787 .M33 2012 U1 - 968 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Upper Saddle River, NJ PB - Pearson KW - South Africa KW - History KW - Politics and government N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 354-359) and index; The setting: climate, geography, and people in South Africa -- Early conflict and interdependence: the Khoesan, the Xhosa, and the establishment and expansion of the Cape Colony -- The British and the expanding Cape: continuities and contrasts -- The making of new states -- Africans, Afrikaners, and the British in the interior, 1830-1870 -- The first phase of South African industrialization -- The second phase of South African industrialization: gold mining and the creation of a unified White state -- From Union to apartheid: the consolidation of a White state and the rise of African opposition, 1910-1948 -- Apartheid and South African society -- The African transformation of South Africa, 1976-1994 -- The new South Africa, 1994-2004 -- Post-script: growing pains in the rainbow nation ER -