Research Catalog

Title

South Africa : the first man, the last nation / R.W. Johnson.

Author

Johnson, R. W. (Richard William)

Publication

London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.

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Details

Description

xxiii, 244 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"In this account of South Africa's complex and bloody history the author shows how the wave of African nationalism has come increasingly to resemble the Afrikaner nationalism it reviled and fought. This country with the longest history still awaits a government which will recognise South Africa as one nation and govern it as such."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Geschichte
• Politieke ontwikkeling
• Sociaal-economische ontwikkeling
• South Africa > History
• South Africa > Politics and government
• South Africa > Social conditions
• 6.680

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-236) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Contested origins -- 2. The moving frontier -- 3. Through a permeable hedge -- 4. The difficult birth of African polities -- 5. The long century of conquest -- 6. Towards one country -- 7. A white world without end -- 8. The apogee of white supremacy -- 9. Eclipse and victory -- 10. The limits to liberation.

ISBN

0297646729

LCCN

^^2005391463

OCLC

• 56647405
• SCSB-10590005

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library