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A History of South Africa

A History of South Africa

by Leonard Thompson

  • HISTORY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 358 PAGES

A succinct history of South Africa, especially strong on early Africans and European colonization. Thompson, a professor of history emeritus at Yale, addresses the forces that helped to shape events in the 20th century. It ends with chapters on the fall of Apartheid and contemporary South Africa. Third edition.  (SAF101, $17.95)


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