Graduate Course: (History) # 641 South Africa 

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GENERAL BACKGROUND TO A HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA:

Robert Ross, A Concise History of South Africa (Cambridge, 1999).

Leonard Thompson, A History of South Africa (New Haven: Yale University Press,  1995).

Peter Hain, Sing the Beloved Country The Struggle for the New South Africa (London:  Pluto Press, 1996).

Nigel Worden, The Making of Modern South Africa (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000).

 

MORE SPECIFIC READINGS ON SOUTH AFRICA

Gail M. Gerhart, Black Power in South Africa the Evolution of an Ideology   (Berkeley, University of California: 1979).

Barry Denenberg, Nelson Mandela No Easy Walk to Freedom (New York: Scholastic Inc. 1995).

Mamphela Ramphele, Across Boundaries The Journey of a South African Woman Leader (New York: The Feminist Press, 1995).

Winnie Mandela, Part of My Soul Went With Him (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1985).

Nelson Mandela, The Struggle is My Life (New York: Pathfinder Press, 1986).

E. A. Ritter, Shaka Zulu (New York: Viking, 1985).

Patti Waldmeir, Anatomy of a Miracle The End of Apartheid and the Birth of the New South Africa (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997).

Roger Southall, South Africa's Transkei The Political Economy of an Independent Bantustan (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983).

Nicholas Cope, To Bind the Nation Solomon kaDinuzulu and Zulu Nationalism 1913-1933 (Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1993).

Saul Dubow, Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa (Cambridge, 1995).

P. Olisanwuche Esedebe, Pan Africanism The Idea and Movement, 1776-1963  (Washington D.C.: Howard University Press, 1982).

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  BOOKS ON SOUTHERN AFRICA

John S. Saul, Recolonization and Resistance in Southern Africa in the 1990s (Tenton: Africa World Press, 1993).

Terence Ranger, Peasant Consciousness and Guerrilla War in Zimbabwe (London:  James Currey, 1985).

William Minter, King Solomon's Mines Revisited Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa (New York: Basic Books, 1986).

Donald Denoon and Balam Nyeko, Southern Africa Since 1800  (New York: Longman, 1984).

Allen Isaacman, Cotton is The Mother of Poverty Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique 1938-1961 (Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1996).

Jeanne Marie Penvenne, African Workers and Colonial Racism Mozambican Strategies and Struggles in Lourenco Marques, 1877-1962 (Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1995).

Glen Lyndon Dodds, The Zulus and Matabele Warrior Nations (London: Arms and Armour, 1998).

Malyn Newitt, A History of Mozambique (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).

  

 BOOKS ON RELIGION

David Chidester, Savage Systems Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996).

Thomas G. Walsh, Frank Kaufmann, editors. Religion and Social Transformation in Southern Africa (Minnesota: Paragon House, 1999).

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