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The Cambridge History of South Africa: Volume 1, From Early Times to 1885

Robert Ross editor Carolyn Hamilton editor Bernard K Mbenga editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:16th Jan '20

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An important reassessment of South Africa's history and a significant new tool for students and academics of African history worldwide.

Coming fourteen years after South Africa's achievement of majority rule, this book takes a critical and searching look at the country's past. The book's chapters, by ten of the best historians of South Africa, represent a reassessment of the major historical events, developments, and records of South Africa and will be an important new tool for students and professors of African history worldwide.Coming fifteen years after South Africa's achievement of majority rule, this book takes a critical and searching look at the country's past. It presents South Africa's past in an objective, clear, and refreshing manner. With chapters contributed by ten of the best historians of the country, the book elaborately weaves together new data, interpretations, and perspectives on the South African past, from the Early Iron Age to the eve of the mineral revolution on the Rand. Its findings incorporate new sources, methods, and concepts, for example providing new data on the relations between Africans and colonial invaders and rethinking crucial issues of identity and consciousness. This book represents an important reassessment of all the major historical events, developments, and records of South Africa - written, oral, and archaeological - and will be an important new tool for students and professors of African history worldwide.

'It is both a credit and a boon to the study of South African history to have all this in one place.' Journal of African History

ISBN: 9781108791991

Dimensions: 230mm x 150mm x 29mm

Weight: 600g

487 pages