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The history of South Africa

Author: Roger B Beck
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
Series: Greenwood histories of the modern nations.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The history of South Africa, one of the oldest inhabited areas of the world, is also that of one of the newest nations, made and remade over the last century. This narrative, current through 1999, is the only up-to-date history of South Africa. Beginning with an overview of the modern nation, this narrative history traces South Africa from prehistory through the European invasions, the settlement by the Dutch, the  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Roger B Beck
ISBN: 031330730X 9780313307300 0313360898 9780313360893
OCLC Number: 43050053
Description: xxx, 248 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: South Africa today --
The first South Africans, 4 million B.C.E.-1488 C.E. --
European invasion, 1488-1795 --
The British and the Cape Colony, 1795-1870 --
African states, Afrikaner republics, and British imperialism, 1770-1870 --
The British Imperial Age, 1870-1910 --
White union and Black segregation: preparing for Apartheid, 1910-1948 --
The Apartheid years, 1948-1973 --
The final years of white domination, 1973-1994 --
The Mandela years, 1994-1999.
Series Title: Greenwood histories of the modern nations.
Responsibility: Roger B. Beck.
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"The history of South Africa, one of the oldest inhabited areas of the world, is also that of one of the newest nations, made and remade over the last century. This narrative, current through 1999, is the only up-to-date history of South Africa. Beginning with an overview of the modern nation, this narrative history traces South Africa from prehistory through the European invasions, the settlement by the 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 subsequent Mandela government."--Jacket.

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