255 pp., 4to., maps, b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, 1999
A history of twentieth century Cape Town from the British colonial town on the brink of the Anglo-Boer War to the post-1994 city struggling with the legacy of apartheid.
Vivian Bickford-Smith, Elizabeth van Heyningen and Nigel Worden are all in the History Department at the University of Cape Town.