The History of South Africa
South Africa's history stretches back to the beginnings of human existence. This book provides an overview to South Africa's multiple millennia of history, covering its long and often troubled past to its current status in the 21st century.

A newly revised and thoroughly updated version of a popular Greenwood publication, The History of South Africa: Second Edition provides readers with readable, accessible information on the nation's prehistory, early history and colonial past, its unfortunate apartheid era, as well as new coverage of South Africa's more recent events in the 20th and 21st centuries. This work presents unique, extended coverage of South Africa's prehistory, beginning 3.5 million years ago and incorporating information gleaned from the most recent archaeological finds. The text reflects the most current historiography on African settlement and life before the arrival of Europeans, accurately describes the colonial era as a period of European hegemony and intense African resistance, and discusses in great detail the apartheid years and the events leading up to majority rule in 1994. This second edition also includes an updated timeline, new biographical sketches of notable people, and supplies recent print and electronic resources in the bibliography.
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The History of South Africa
South Africa's history stretches back to the beginnings of human existence. This book provides an overview to South Africa's multiple millennia of history, covering its long and often troubled past to its current status in the 21st century.

A newly revised and thoroughly updated version of a popular Greenwood publication, The History of South Africa: Second Edition provides readers with readable, accessible information on the nation's prehistory, early history and colonial past, its unfortunate apartheid era, as well as new coverage of South Africa's more recent events in the 20th and 21st centuries. This work presents unique, extended coverage of South Africa's prehistory, beginning 3.5 million years ago and incorporating information gleaned from the most recent archaeological finds. The text reflects the most current historiography on African settlement and life before the arrival of Europeans, accurately describes the colonial era as a period of European hegemony and intense African resistance, and discusses in great detail the apartheid years and the events leading up to majority rule in 1994. This second edition also includes an updated timeline, new biographical sketches of notable people, and supplies recent print and electronic resources in the bibliography.
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The History of South Africa

The History of South Africa

by Roger B. Beck
The History of South Africa

The History of South Africa

by Roger B. Beck

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South Africa's history stretches back to the beginnings of human existence. This book provides an overview to South Africa's multiple millennia of history, covering its long and often troubled past to its current status in the 21st century.

A newly revised and thoroughly updated version of a popular Greenwood publication, The History of South Africa: Second Edition provides readers with readable, accessible information on the nation's prehistory, early history and colonial past, its unfortunate apartheid era, as well as new coverage of South Africa's more recent events in the 20th and 21st centuries. This work presents unique, extended coverage of South Africa's prehistory, beginning 3.5 million years ago and incorporating information gleaned from the most recent archaeological finds. The text reflects the most current historiography on African settlement and life before the arrival of Europeans, accurately describes the colonial era as a period of European hegemony and intense African resistance, and discusses in great detail the apartheid years and the events leading up to majority rule in 1994. This second edition also includes an updated timeline, new biographical sketches of notable people, and supplies recent print and electronic resources in the bibliography.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798216098003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 11/12/2013
Series: The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 344
File size: 3 MB
Age Range: 7 - 17 Years

About the Author

Roger B. Beck, PhD, is distinguished professor of African and world history at Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL.
ROGER B. BECK is Professor of African and World History at Eastern Illinois University. He has published widely on South African history and is coauthor of World History, Patterns of Interaction.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword
Preface
Preface to the Second Edition
Acronyms
Timeline of Historical Events
1 South Africa Today
2 The First South Africans, 4 Million B.C.E.–1488 C.E.
3 European Invasion, 1488–1795
4 The British and the Cape Colony, 1795–1870
5 African States, Afrikaner Republics, and British Imperialism, 1770–1870
6 The British Imperial Age, 1870–1910
7 White Union and Black Segregation: Preparing for Apartheid, 1910–1948
8 The Apartheid Years, 1948–1973
9 The Final Years of White Domination, 1973–1994
10 The Mandela Years, 1994–1999
11 After Mandela, 1999–2013
Notable People in the History of South Africa
Glossary
Bibliographic Essay
Index
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