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Introduction 1
1 The settlement of the country 5
2 Colonial conquest 22
3 Unification 59
4 Consolidation 91
5 Apartheid 122
6 The costs of apartheid 154
7 'Let freedom reign': the ending of apartheid and the transition to democracy, 1980-1994 174
8 Epilogue: the acid rain of freedom 214
Suggestions for further reading 224
Index 235
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Ben Stokes
reviewed A Concise History of South Africa on January 20, 2014
A Concise History of South Africa
I don't feel comfortable rating this book because it's a fairly technical work on a subject I'm not familiar with.
Anyways, the book seems fairly balanced, factual, and wasn't boring. There was a good bit of name, place and event overload, so it's probably a better second book on the topic after reading the wikipedia article and looking at a nice map. The book gives good coverage up to the beginning of the Mandela administration, without much information about the post-apartheid period.
The book is definitely not a history of the blacks of southern Africa - the neighbouring states, the bantustans and the indigenous societies are only covered as they relate to the issues of South Africa proper. It is in some sense a history of the South African nationalist project, which may lend itself to bias in structure, emphasis and focus if not in facts.
I thought it was useful, recommendable but I have no basis for comparison if you're shopping histories of South Africa.
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