TY - BOOK AU - Davenport,T.R.H. TI - South Africa: a modern history U1 - 968 PY - 1987/// CY - Johannesburg PB - Macmillian South Africa KW - South Africa KW - History N1 - 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 ER -