One in a series of short books devoted to different countries that offers much-needed cross-cultural and global material to instructors. Used alongside an introductory sociology text or as a supplement in courses on comparative societies, comparative politics, comparative economics, or social stratification, this book brings a rich global perspective into the undergraduate classroom. The openin…
The Atlas describes the legislation and impact of apartheid and the resistance, both local and international, to its racial policies. The integration of detailed maps and text reinforces the specifically spatial nature of apartheid, the way the map of South Africa was redrawn and continues to be redrawn
Critiquing the neoliberal economics formulated and imposed by the World Bank and IMF on developing countries generally, and Africa specifically, this book details the consequences of these policies. Demonstrated are the extraordinary economic and human damage these practices have wrought over the past decade, and how they have displaced the originally radical and pro-people orientation of the A…
This book chronicles the extraordinary events in South Africas recent history, from the 76 Soweto riots, the euphoria of Nelson Mandelas release, to the 1994 elections and the final shattering of the reviled apartheid system
This contents of this book: 1. Emerging powers: Between BRIC and non-BRIC 2. Pivot state and analytic eclectism 3. Background for the case studies 4. Indonesia as a pivot? An analysis of three case studies
The contents of this book: - South African Foreign Policy (1945-1999) - South Africa's Foreign Policy: From Internationalisation to Globalisation - The Foreign Economic Policy of South Africa
South Africa's transformation from apartheid to a non-racial democracy has been called a miracle. But behind the public story lies another, the story of how the Afrikaners' own secret brotherhood, the Broderbund, saw the need for change and met secretly with the ANC in an English village
The story that emerges is one of endurance and heroism in face of atrocious brutality on the part of the colonialists. But it reveals that it was also one of painful compromises imposed by the conditions of the struggle and the subordination of internal democracy within the liberation movement to the single goal of military and diplomatic victory. The study will be of keen interest to everyone…
Since June 1964, Nelson Mandela has been imprisoned in South Africa. His speeches and writings have been banned, his words and voice cut off from his people. A whole generation has been born and grown up while he has been in jail, yet, in the words of Nadine Gordimer, "there is no black child in whose face, at the mention of his name, there is not instant recognition." For Nelson Mandela is a l…