The making of apartheid, 1948-1961
Subtitle: conflict and compromise
By: Deborah Posel.
Series: Oxford studies in African affairs
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Apartheid -- South Africa -- History; Capitalism -- South Africa -- History; Rural-urban migration -- South Africa; Blacks -- South Africa -- Relocation; South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1948-1961
Description: Analyzing the shaping of apartheid, this book argues that it was not the product of a single 'grand plan', but that it arose from complex patterns of conflict and compromise within the state, in which white capitalists, the black working class and popular movements had uneven degrees of power.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oxford, 1987.