Twentieth-Century South Africa: A Developmental History

ISBN-13: 9781108446150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 268 str.

Bill Freund

Opis

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

Recenzje

'Freund's latest title is an important landmark, showing the transformation of radical scholarship in recent years … [his] is an important book that opens up new fields of urban research.' Timothy Gibbs, The English Historical Review

Spis treści

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.