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The history of South Africa / Roger B. Beck.

by Beck, Roger B.

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Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, 2014.

South Africa -- History.

Greenwood histories of the modern nations.

xxxvi, 301 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Second edition.

Timeline of historical events -- South Africa today -- The first South Africans, 4 million B.C.E.-1488 C.E. -- European invasion, 1488-1795 -- The British and the Cape colony, 1795-1870 -- African states, Afrikaner republics, and British imperialism, 1770-1870 -- The British imperial age, 1870-1910 -- White union and Black segregation : preparing for apartheid, 1910-1948 -- The apartheid years, 1948-1973 -- The final years of white domination, 1973-1994 -- The Mandela years, 1994-1999 -- After Mandela, 1999-2013 -- Notable people in 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"--

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