South African in World History

This volume offers the first general survey of South African history to fully integrate social history and women's history and the first to emphasize connections between the United States and South Africa. Written by Iris Berger, a recognized authority on South Africa and a past president of the Africa Studies Associatin, this engaging history ranges from the first Stone Age foragers and Iron Age farmers to the comng of the Dutch settlers and the introduction of slavery, the British conquest in the early nineteenth century, the discovery of gold and diamonds, the rise of Afrikaner Nationalism, the imposition of apartheid, the Soweto UPrising, adn the creation of a new government headed by Nelson Mandela. Throughout the narrative, Berger uses indicvidua lbiographies t oilluminate issues of race,