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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 968
EAN: 9780300087765
ISBN: 0300087764
Label: Yale University Press
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: March 01, 2001
Publisher: Yale University Press
Sales Rank: 19876
Studio: Yale University Press
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A leading scholar of South Africa provides a fresh and penetrating exploration of that country's history, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present, focusing primarily on the experiences of its black inhabitants. For this third edition, Leonard Thompson adds two new chapters that describe the transfer of power and the new South Africa under the presidencies of Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Before giving my actual review, I want to give you some context from which this review came. I read this book while studying in South Africa and taking South African History. I'm an undergraduate student and I'm not getting a degree in History. I would say I'm what the author would look at as a basic twenty-something reader.
With that said, onto my review:
This is 3 1/2 stars. The book was overflowing with facts and all the key events that lead up to South Africa ... Read More
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The very epitomy of a 2 1/2 star, mediocre book.
I was neither impressed nor appalled. It reviews South Africa from prehistoric times until after Aparthied. If you want to know some basics about South Africa, I'd read it. If you are looking for real in depth analysis, find something else. I would neither suggest nor disuade readers.
Rating:  -
I read this book just before my month long tour of S. Africa. For what it is, which is a quick summary of the entire history of the region that is now called South Africa, this book excelled. Nearly everything I saw around me on my trip had meaning and history because I read this book. When people talked about Bantu people or Xhosa or Zulu, I knew what people they were talking about and a little about them because of this book. When I visited Robben Island or Soweto, it meant more to me. When ... Read More
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In this excellent history of South Africa, Professor Leonard Thompson of Yale University, gives the reader a truly holistic history of South Africa. Instead of beginning the history of South Africa with the arrival of the European explorers, he begins with the information that archaeologist have gained on the earliest humans in the area. Then, he follows the evolution of the area, showing how history unfolded for all of its people, especially the black South Africans who always did make up a majority ... Read More
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I wrote to seller to ask when book might be arriving as a time deadline was approaching for us--I never got a response. I do believe that the book arrived in the MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE ALLOTTED TIME however.
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