The Making of Modern South Africa: Conquest, Apartheid, Democracy, 4th Edition

by Nigel Worden (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

• ISBN13: 9781405154291
• ISBN10: 1405154292
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

In The Making of Modern South Africa, Nigel Worden provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the key themes and debates central to an understanding of the region. The book examines the major issues in South Africa's history: the colonial conquests of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the establishment of racism, segregation, and apartheid; the spirit of reform, resistance and repression of the 1980s; and the eventual break up of institutional apartheid and founding of democracy. For this fourth edition, a completely rewritten final chapter takes the story from the second free election of 1994 to the present, alongside new and revised maps and an updated further reading section. Worden places the new South Africa in a wide historical context and provides a sharp, analytical overview for all those interested in modern South African history and politics.

Author Biography

Nigel Worden is Professor of History at the University of Cape Town. He was previously Research Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge and Lecturer in Commonwealth History at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Slavery in Dutch South Africa (1985) and co-author of Cape Town: The Making of a City (1998, with Elizabeth van Heyningen and Vivian Bickford-Smith) and Cape Town in the Twentieth Century (1999, with Elizabeth van Heyningen and Vivian Bickford-Smith), as well as work on Indian Ocean history.

Table of Contents

List of Maps

Outline Chronology

Acknowledgements

List of Acronyms

Introduction: The Changing History of South Africa

The Conquest of the Land

Changes in Town and Countryside

White Supremacy, Segregation and Apartheid

The Heyday of Apartheid

The Decline and Fall of Apartheid

The 'New South Africa'

Bibliography

Index

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