The Cambridge History of South Africa: Volume 2, 1885–1994

Robert Ross, Anne Kelk Mager, Bill Nasson

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9781139088961
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: African History
• Index: History

This book surveys South African history from the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late nineteenth century to the first democratic elections in 1994. Written by many of the leading historians of the country, it pulls together four decades of scholarship to present a detailed overview of South Africa during the twentieth century. It covers political, economic, social and intellectual developments and their interconnections in a clear and objective manner. This book, the second of two volumes, represents an important reassessment of all the major historical events, developments and records of South Africa and will be an important new tool for students and professors of African history worldwide, as well as the basis for further development and research.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• CONTRIBUTORS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• NOTE ON REFERENCES
• INTRODUCTION
• 1 SOUTH AFRICA AND SOUTH AFRICANS: NATIONALITY, BELONGING, CITIZENSHIP
• 2 IMPERIALISM, SETTLER IDENTITIES, AND COLONIAL CAPITALISM: THE HUNDRED-YEAR ORIGINS OF THE 1899 SOUTH AFRICAN WAR
• 3 CLASS, CULTURE, AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1880–1899
• 4 WAR AND UNION, 1899–1910
• 5 SOUTH AFRICA: THE UNION YEARS, 1910–1948– POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS
• SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE, 1910–1948
• 7 THE APARTHEID PROJECT, 1948–1970
• 8 POPULAR RESPONSES TO APARTHEID: 1948–C. 1975
• 9 RESISTANCE AND REFORM, 1973–1994
• 10 THE EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN POPULATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
• 11 THE ECONOMY AND POVERTY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
• 12 MODERNITY, CULTURE, AND NATION
• 13 ENVIRONMENT, HERITAGE, RESISTANCE, AND HEALTH: NEWER HISTORIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTIONS
• STATISTICAL APPENDIX
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX