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South Africa's 1940s : worlds of possibilities / edited by Saul Dubow & Alan Jeeves.
- Title
- South Africa's 1940s : worlds of possibilities / edited by Saul Dubow & Alan Jeeves.
- Publication
- Cape Town : Double Storey, c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DT1928 .S67 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 289 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- The 1940s was a turbulent period in the history of South Africa. It opened with parliament's bitterly contested decision to enter the war; was rocked by political turmoil; and ended with a bang, as well as a whimper, as the National Party captured political power in 1948.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Economic growth and transformation in the 1940s -- Visions, hopes and views about the future -- The case for a welfare state -- Delivering primary care in impoverished urban and rural communities -- The Grassy Park Health Centre -- Planning for leisure in 1940s Natal -- Changing the old guard -- Eluding capture -- The politics of the past and of popular pursuits in the construction of everyday Afrikaner nationalism, 1938-1948 -- An Anglo-South African intellectual, the Second World War, and coming of apartheid -- Yusuf Dadoo -- Christian reconstruction.
- ISBN
- 1770130012 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2006376194
- OCLC
- 60785318
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library