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A revised edition of a history of South Africa which focuses on the experiences of the black inhabitants from the earliest known human settlement through to the present day. Includes a new chapter on South Africa's transition from a racist political order to a democratic one. Last published in 1992.

Review: From Yale historian Thompson, a timely and commendable endeavor: a South African history that's as much the story of blacks and coloreds as of whites. Apart from its more inclusive approach, however, it lacks perceptive insights, and that vitality that characterizes the best histories. Taking advantage of new archaeological and anthropological discoveries, Thompson describes southern Africa, just before the first white 'settlers arrived, more fully than other comparable books have done. He distinguishes three main groups among the precolonialists: the hunter-gatherers, the mixed farmers, and the pastoralists. The competition between these groups for scarce land and water was exacerbated and intensified by the Dutch settlers' arrival at the Cape. It was a competition that was to form a continuing thread through the next 300 years as the whites, aided by European technology and the discovery of gold and diamonds, sought more and more of the land and resources for themselves. Thompson makes this competition the major theme of his history and uses it to interpret all the familar significant historical events in South Africa - the Trek into the interior; the clash on the frontier with the Xhosas; the British annexation; the rise of the Zulus; and, in the 20th century, the parallel growth of Afrikaner and black nationalism. Given the rapid evolution of events in South Africa, Thompson can be forgiven for ending his book rather abruptly in the autumn of 1989, but some deeper analysis would have taken his history beyond the textbook level it comes perilously close to being at times. Even his interpretation tends to be presented as fait accompli rather than as intellectual argument. Useful, then, but not definitive. (Kirkus Reviews) (Copac)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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List of Illustrations

Preface

Chronology

The Africans p1

The White Invaders: The Cape Colony, 1652-1870 p31

African Wars and White Invaders: Southeast Africa, 1770-1870 p70

Diamonds, Gold, and British Imperialism, 1870-1910 p110

The Segregation Era, 1910-1948 p154

The Apartheid Era, 1948- 1978 p187

Apartheid in Crisis, 1978-1989 p221

The Political Transition, 1989-1994 p241

The New South Africa, 1994-1999 p265

Beyond the New South Africa, 1999-2014 by Lynn Berat p290

Appendix: Statistics p347

Notes p357

Index p421