South Africa: A Modern History / Edition 5

by T. Davenport, C. Saunders

Overview

A survey of the whole of South African history from pre-colonial times to 1999, suitable for serious students of the subject. It handles all major topics, with special focus on the dramatic changes that have occured since 1990.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312233761
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/08/2000
Edition description:	5th ed. 2000
Pages:	807
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.07(d)

About the Author

T.R.H. DAVENPORT was Reader, Professor and then Head of Department of History at Rhodes University in Grahamstown until his retirement in 1990. He was previously Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of The Afrikaner Bond: the History of a South African Political Party, and contributor to the Oxford History of South Africa and to a variety of professional journals.

CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS is Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of numerous books and articles on aspects of South African history, including The Making of South Africa (1988), A Historical Dictionary of South Africa (1983 , new ed. 1999) and many articles in the South African History Journal.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Prelude to White Domination
• Section I: The Setting of the Human Problem
• From the Dawn of History to the Time of Troubles
• The Birth Place of a Plural Society
• The Enlightenment and the Great Trek
• Section II: Chiefdoms, Republics and Colonies in the Nineteenth Century
• African Chiefdoms
• Boer Republics
• British Colonies
• Section III: The Struggle for Possession
• White and Black: The Struggle for the Land
• Empire and Republics: The Breaking of Boer Independence, 1850-1902
• The Shaping of a White Dominion
• Part II: The Consolidation of a White State
• Section I: The Road to Afrikaner Dominance
• Union under Stress: Botha and Smuts, 1910-24
• Afrikaner's Road to Parity: Hertzog, 1924-33
• White Unity, Black Division, 1933-9
• Smuts and the Liberal-Nationalist Confrontation, 1939-48
• Section II: The Age of the Social Engineers
• Trek into the Wilderness, 1948-60
• Internal Combustion, 1956-64
• Modification and Backfire, 1964-78
• At the Crossroads, 1978-90
• Salesmanship: Ethnasia contra mundum, 1945-90
• Section III: A Search for a Promised Land
• Towards the Sharing of South Africa
• Body, Mind and Spirit: A Quest for Human Values
• Appendix Tables
• Heads of State, 1652-1999
• Party Representation in the Assembly, 1910-1999

Editorial Reviews

The work has long been the best single volume history of South Africa available. Choice

From the Publisher

This history begins with the years before white domination and weaves together the many threads leading to the consolidation of a white state. The final three chapters discuss the sharing of power and the quest for humane values. Saunders (history, U. of Cape Town) now shares authorship with original author Davenport (emeritus, history, Rhodes U., Grahamstown). The first edition was published in 1977; the fourth in 1991. This new edition is substantially revised and updated and contains a brief foreword by Desmond Tutu. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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