Reassessing Mandela

ISBN-13: 9780367507176 / Miękka / 2023 / 190 str.

Opis

The essays in this book analyse aspects of Mandela’s life in the context of South Africa’s national history, and make an important contribution to the historiography of the anti-apartheid political struggle.

Spis treści

1. The Challenge of Rethinking Mandela

Colin Bundy

2. The Headman, the Regent and the 'Long Walk to Freedom'

Philip Bonner

3. Mandela: The Untold Heritage

Xolela Mangcu

4. Mandela and the Left

Tom Lodge

5. The M-Plan: Mandela’s Struggle to Reorient the African National Congress

Paul Landau

6. Mandela’s Army: Urban Revolt in South Africa, 1960–1964

Thula Simpson

7. News from Robben Island: Journalists’ Visits to Nelson Mandela during his Imprisonment

Martha Evans

8. The Impossible Contract: The Political and Private Marriage of Nelson and

Winnie Mandela

Shireen Hassim

9. Mandela, Human Rights and the Making of South Africa’s Transformative Constitution

Timothy Gibbs

10. Mandela and Beyond: Thinking New Possibility in the 21st Century

Elleke Boehmer

O autorze

Colin Bundy has retired after a career as university academic and administrator. An historian, he is author of Nelson Mandela, a Jacana pocket biography.

William Beinart is Emeritus Professor, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, author of Twentieth-Century South Africa (OUP, 2001) and Rights to Land (with Peter Delius and Michelle Hay, Jacana, 2017). With Ed Teversham he wrote an A-level text on South Africa, 1948–94 (Pearson, 2015).