Modern South Africa in World History

Description

This book assesses South African history within imperial and global networks of power, trade and communication. South African modernity is understood in terms of the interplay between internal and external forces. Key historical themes, including the emergence of an industrialised economy, the development of systematic racial discrimination and popular resistance against racial power, and the influence of national and ethnic identities on political and social organisation, are set out in relation to imperial and global influences. Accompanied by additional online material, this book is central to our understanding of South Africa in the context of world history. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of Maps Chapter 1 Introduction Further reading Chapter 2 South Africa in the Colonial World The development of southern African societies Political and economic transitions at the Cape Missionaries, humanitarianism and settler colonialism Trekkers, amaZulu and Natal Securing colonial hegemony Summary Further reading Chapter 3 Minerals and Modernity Labour before the mineral revolution Imperialism, confederation and war The mineral revolution(s) Imperial tensions and transnational crisis The South African War An international conflict? Race and war British responses to the war Summary Further reading Chapter 4 Race and Segregation Empire, race and class Gandhi and South African Indians The emergence of African nationalism Colour, class and war Segregation and the ‘Native Question’ African responses to segregation The Communist Party and black politics Urbanization Summary Further reading Chapter 5 Empire, Nation and War Benevolent empire and the ‘friends of the Native’ The politics of Afrikaner nationalism Fascism and apartheid War and reconstruction The politics of urbanization and African rights Civil disobedience and Indian identities International opinion and the United Nations Summary Further reading Chapter 6 Apartheid and Cold War The slow genesis of apartheid ‘New African’ culture and resistance Congress and the mobilization of popular resistance to apartheid Communism, Cold War and the international relations of apartheid in the 1950s The Sharpeville crisis and the turn to armed struggle Black politics in exile Sanctions, boycotts and international solidarity The apogee of apartheid Summary Further reading Chapter 7 Liberation Struggles Black Consciousness and the Soweto Uprising Internal and external pressures – from ‘dialogue’ to ‘total onslaught’ The ‘reform’ of apartheid under P. W. Botha Resistance and repression The world against apartheid? The apartheid state in crisis The global dimensions of the ‘negotiated revolution’ Summary Further reading Chapter 8 Globalization and the New South Africa Rights and reconciliation The new South Africa and the constraints of globalization Mbeki, African Renaissance and HIV/AIDS Democratic challenges and the rise of Jacob Zuma ‘It’s Time’: South Africa in the post-millennial world Insurgent citizens – popular politics, protest and the state under Zuma Further reading Chronology Notes Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: South Africa in the Colonial World Chapter 3: Minerals and Modernity Chapter 4: Race and Segregation Chapter 5: Empire, Nation and War Chapter 6: Apartheid and Cold War Chapter 7: Liberation Struggles Chapter 8: Globalization and the New South Africa Index