Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Terminology and orthography
- Introduction
- 1 The settlement of the country
- 2 Colonial conquest
- 3 Unification
- 4 Consolidation
- 5 Apartheid
- 6 The costs of apartheid
- 7 ‘Let freedom reign’: the ending of apartheid and the transition to democracy, 1980–1994
- 8 Epilogue: the acid rain of freedom
- Suggestions for further reading
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2014
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Terminology and orthography
- Introduction
- 1 The settlement of the country
- 2 Colonial conquest
- 3 Unification
- 4 Consolidation
- 5 Apartheid
- 6 The costs of apartheid
- 7 ‘Let freedom reign’: the ending of apartheid and the transition to democracy, 1980–1994
- 8 Epilogue: the acid rain of freedom
- Suggestions for further reading
- Index
Summary
The first edition of this book was written during my tenure of a fellow-ship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar, during the 1996–7 academic year. I would like to thank the Institute for the support and conviviality it gave, and also the Faculty of Arts of Leiden University, my employer, for allowing me leave of absence. I would also like to thank Dmitri van de Bersselaar, Jan-Bart Gewald, Janneke Jansen, Adam Kuper and Barbara Oomen for their critical comments on various of the chapters, and Robert Edgar for his comments, which helped enormously with the rewriting for the second edition.
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- A Concise History of South Africa , pp. xvii - xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008
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