Synopses & Reviews
...The best introductory text on South Africa for beginning undergraduates has been made even better.
- African Studies Review
This new edition of a popular text has been revised to incorporate recent advances in scholarship, especially concerning the early history, settlement, and relationships of the Khoisan and Bantu-speaking peoples; the causation and course of the Mfecane; the nature of precolonial Nguni and Sotho-Tswana societies; and the dynamics of change in contemporary South Africa.
Review
...The best introductory text on South Africa for beginning undergraduates has been made even better.African Studies Review
Synopsis
This new edition has been revised to incorporate recent advances in scholarship.
Synopsis
This new edition of a popular text has been revised to incorporate recent advances in scholarship, especially concerning the early history, settlement, and relationships of the Khoisan and Bantu-speaking peoples; the causation and course of the Mfecane; the nature of precolonial Nguni and Sotho-Tswana societies; and the dynamics of change in contemporary South Africa.
About the Author
J.D. Omer-Cooper carried out much of the research for this new edition during study leave spent in Cape Town where he was a visitor to the University of Cape Town Department of History. He has taught in Ibadan and Lusaka. He is renowned for his pioneering work on the Mfecane in the Zulu Aftermath.
Table of Contents
The Khoisan Peoples and Bantu-speaking Settlement
The Establishment and Early Development of the Cape Colony
New Wine in Old Bottles: The Cape Colony 1795-1834
The Mass Migrations of the Mfecane and the Great Trek
Boer Republics, African States, and the British
Diamonds and the First British Attempt to Unify South Africa
Gold and the Unification of South Africa
From Union to Apartheid: the Politics of Segregation
The First Two Phases of Apartheid
The Final Phase and Collapse of Apartheid
Order of Anarchy?
Lesotho
Swaziland
Botswana
Namibia
Illustrated