337 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Fourth Edition, Johannesburg, (1990) 2014

A new edition of Leonard Thompson's history of South Africa, revised and updated by Lynn Berat. For this fourth edition, a new chapter has been added that describes the major developments of the post-Mandela years.

"I did not think it was possible for a white person to write a history of South Africa which a black person would find to be a fair and accurate account of a beautiful land and its people. Leonard Thompson has disabused me of that notion. His is a history that is both accurate and authentic, written in a delightful literary style." Desmond Tutu

"This is an outstanding book and in every sense of the word 'revisionist'. It reflects sound scholarship and is highly readable as well." John Galbraith, University of California, San Diegio

Leonard Thompson was the Charles J Stillé Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, and director of the former Yale Southern African Research Program. He died in 2005.

A HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA, from the earliest known human habitation to the present

: Thompson (L.)

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