South Africa in World History

by Iris Berger

Book Overview

This volume begins in the early centuries of the Common Era with the various groups of people who had settled in southern Africa. Stone Age foragers, farmers with iron technology, and pastoralists all interacted to create a complex society before Europeans arrived. In the seventeenth century, Dutch settlers developed a colonial society based on the menial labor of indigenous inhabitants of the Cape and slaves imported from the East Indies and other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019533793X
• ISBN13: 9780195337938
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.1" x 6.1"