An economic history of South Africa : conquest, discrimination, and development

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Title:

Author:

Feinstein, C. H.

ISBN:

9780521850919

9780521616416

Personal Author:

Feinstein, C. H.

Publication Information:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Physical Description:

p. cm.

Series:

The Ellen McArthur lectures

Series Title:

The Ellen McArthur lectures

Contents:

1. Setting the context : South Africa in international perspective -- 2. Seizing the land : conquest and dispossession -- 3. Making the labour force : coercion and discrimination -- 4. Creating the colour bar : formal barriers, poor whites, and 'civilized' labour -- 5. Exporting the gold : the vital role of the mineral revolution -- 6. Transforming the economy : the rise of the manufacturing and commercial agriculture -- 7. Separating the races : the imposition of apartheid -- 8. Forcing the pace : rapid progress despite constraints -- 9. Hitting the barriers : from triumph to disaster -- 10. Confronting the contradictions : the final crisis and the retreat from apartheid -- Annexe 1. The people of South Africa -- Annexe 2. The land and the geographical environment -- Annexe 3. The labour force and unemployment.

Geographic Term:

South Africa -- Economic conditions.

South Africa -- Economic policy.

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Summary

This book is the first economic history of South Africa in over sixty years. Professor Charles H. Feinstein offers an authoritative survey of five hundred years of South African economic history from the years preceding European settlements in 1652 through to the post-Apartheid era. He charts the early phase of slow growth, and then the transformation of the economy as a result of the discovery of diamonds and gold in the 1870s, followed by the rapid rise of industry in the wartime years. The final chapters cover the introduction of apartheid after 1948, and its consequences for economic performance. Special attention is given to the processes by which the black population were deprived of their land, and to the methods by which they were induced to supply labour for white farms, mines and factories. This book will be essential reading for students in economics, African history, imperial history and politics.