From Colonisation to Democracy: A New Historical Geography of South Africa

by Alan Lester

Overview

This account of the development of modern South African society seeks to establish the geographical and historical context in which change has taken place. The author describes important historical continuities in South Africa which have shaped present society, including social groupings and their stratification, policital institutions, the patterns of human geography, economic structure, and external links and influences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781860641763
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/31/1998
Series:	International Library of African Studies
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	5.48(w) x 8.42(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

Alan Lester is Lecturer in Geography at St. Mary's University College, University of Surrey. He has researched and taught extensively in South Africa.

Table of Contents

Introduction
• The Foundations of a Society
• Colonial Expansion, Industrialization and Afrikanerdom
• The Germination of a System
• The Formulation of a Structure
• Adaptations and Contradictions
• The Reformulation of a Structure
• Policy and Reality
• The Changing South African State
• Bibliography
• Index