Twentieth-Century South Africa - A Developmental History

This unique history highlights South Africa's complex and dynamic attempt to build a developmental state; an attempt that ultimately faltered.

List of contents

1. Twentieth-century South Africa: a developmental history; 2. The conflicted foundations of industrial policy; 3. Industrial development in South Africa up to World War II - some figures and some business history; 4. A (near) developmental state forms 1939-48; 5. The impact of Apartheid 1948-73; 6. The Parastatals ISCOR and SASOL; 7. Key institutions: the IDC, the CSIR, the HSRC; 8. The company towns of the Vaal Triangle; 9. Energy and the natural environment; 10. Developmentalism dismantled.

About the author

Bill Freund is Professor Emeritus of Built Environment and Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and Visiting Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. His previous books include The African Worker (Cambridge, 1988), The African City: A History (Cambridge, 2007) and The Making of Contemporary Africa (2016).

Product details

• Authors: Bill Freund, Bill (University of Kwazulu-Natal Freund
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781108446150
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44615-0
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / Africa / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Southern Africa, African History, History and Archaeology