Radical History and the Struggle Revisited: The Cambridge History of South Africa

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Carolyn Hamilton, Bernard K. Mbenga and Robert Ross (eds.). 2010. The Cambridge History of South Africa, Volume 1, From Early Times to 1885. Cambridge, UK and New York, New York: Cambridge University Press. xx, 467 pp.

Robert Ross, Anne Kelk Mager and Bill Nasson (eds.). 2011. The Cambridge History of South Africa, Volume 2, 1885-1994. Cambridge, UK and New York, New York: Cambridge University Press. xi, 724 pp.