Rethinking the rise and fall of apartheid : South Africa and world politics

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Author:

Guelke, Adrian.

ISBN:

9780333981221

9780333981238

Personal Author:

Guelke, Adrian.

Publication Information:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Physical Description:

xvii, 248 p. ; 22 cm.

Series:

Rethinking world politics

Series Title:

Rethinking world politics

Contents:

1. Introduction : apartheid's global significance -- 2. The debate on the nature of South African racial policies : totalitarian or colonial? -- 3. Origins of racial policy : consequence of an imperialist war or the prejudice of the frontier? -- 4. Segregation : home-grown or imported? -- 5. The theory and practice of apartheid : was there a blueprint? -- 6. South Africa in a post-colonial world : modernising or eroding apartheid? -- 7. From Vorster to Botha : new departure or militarised cul de sac? -- 8. The pursuit of a negotiated settlement : choice or necessity? -- 9. The unexpected transition to majority rule : analysing a miracle? -- 10. The worldwide anti-apartheid movement : peripheral or crucial? -- 11. Conclusion : taking the long view on apartheid's demise.

Subject Term:

Apartheid -- South Africa -- History.

Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa -- History.

World politics -- 1945-1989.

World politics -- 1989-

Geographic Term:

South Africa -- Race relations -- History.

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol059/2004051237.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol053/2004051237.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol052/2004051237.html

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Providing a much-needed antidote to recent revisionist attempts to 'rehabilitate' apartheid, this major new text by a leading authority offers a considered and substantive reassessment of the nature, endurance and significance of apartheid in South Africa as well as the reasons for its dramatic collapse. Paying particular attention to the international dimension as well as the domestic, the author assesses the impact of anti-apartheid protest, of changing attitudes of Western governments to the apartheid regime and the evolution of South African government policies to the outside world.