The Cambridge History of South Africa (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521517942)

Reflecting on South Africa's achievement of majority rule, this book takes a critical and searching look at the country's past. It presents South Africa's past in an objective, clear, and refreshing manner. With chapters contributed by ten of the best historians of the country, the book elaborately weaves together new data, interpretations, and perspectives on the South African past, from the Early Iron Age to the eve of the mineral revolution on the Rand. Its findings incorporate new sources, methods, and concepts, for example providing new data on the relations between Africans and colonial invaders and rethinking crucial issues of identity and consciousness. This book represents an important reassessment of all the major historical events, developments, and records of South Africa - written, oral, and archaeological - and will be an important new tool for students and professors of African history worldwide.

Author: Carolyn Hamilton
ISBN-10: 052151794X
ISBN-13: 9780521517942
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/23/2009
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.40w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2010