A CONCISE HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA

251 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Second Edition, Cape Town & Cambridge, (1999) 2008

Covers the history of Southern Africa from the introduction of agriculture about 1 500 years ago up to and including the government of Thabo Mbeki.

Robert Ross is Professor of History at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. His other books include "Adam Kok's Griquas" (1976), "Cape of Torments: slavery and resistance in South Africa" (1982), "Beyond the Pale: essays in the history of colonial South Africa" (1992) and "Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870" (1999).