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South Africa |
For resources from the Bryn Mawr Library, click on Bibliography. A great resource for this project would be The Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, REF 967 E. Other links on our website that include information on South Africa: Africa
African Studies: South Africa extensive information from the WWW Virtual Library
Background Notes: South Africa from the U.S. Department of State; includes people, history, government, economy, etc.
Map of South Africa from the Perry-Castaneda Map Collection
Library of Congress Country Studies/Area Studies
Lonely Planet - SubWWWay to Africa
Yahoo Directory - Countries and Regions of Africa
Internet African History Source Book
African National Congress "The Majority Party in South Africa's Government"
Museums Online: South Africa
A guide to cultural, artistic, and scientific museums in South Africa
For additional Internet sites on African art, see ART entries on this website
PBS - HOPES | South Africa basic facts and a transcript of the PBS video
South Africa general information
South African Government Online thoroughly discusses all aspects of South Africa's government
The Story of Africa| BBC World Service extensive information about the history of Southern Africa
An Introduction to South Africa from Geographia.com; covers geography, climate, history and people.
PBS: AFRICA - Africa for Kids - My World not necessarily for research, but an interesting site where students in South Africa take the viewer on a "tour" of their home.
Books from the Edith Hamilton Library
| 370.968 E | Education, race, and social change in South Africa. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, c1982. | |
| 916.8 G | Lifetimes under apartheid. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1986. Extracts from the writings of Nadine Gordimer and photographs by David Goldblatt. | |
| Ref 968 R | Reader's digest illustrated history of South Africa: the real story. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest Association, c1989. | |
| 301.24 A | Alverson, Hoyt | Mind in the heart of darkness: value and self-identity among the Tswana of southern Africa. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1978. |
| 968.06 C | Carter, Gwendolen Margaret | Which way is South Africa going? Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1980. |
| 967 D | Davidson, Basil | The search for Africa: history, culture, politics. New York: Times Books, c1994. |
| 968.4 D | Dodds, Glen Lyndon. | The Zulus and Matabele: warrior nations. London: Arms and Armour, c1998. |
| 305.8 E | Eades, Lindsay Michie | The end of apartheid in South Africa. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. Chronology of events--The end of apartheid in South Africa explained-- Historical background--Racial separation--The parties and the process of transition--Internal and external pressure-- Challenges of a new democracy--Biographies: the personalities behind apartheid and its end--Primary documents of the end of apartheid in South Africa--Glossary of selected terms-- Annotated bibliography. |
| FIC Fre | Freed, Lynn. | The mirror: a novel. New York: Crown Publishers, c1997. |
| 960 H | Halpern, Jack. | South Africa 's hostages: Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland. Baltimore, Md.: Penguin, 1965. |
| 320.56 H | Hepple, Alex | South Africa: workers under Apartheid. London: Christian Action Publications, 1972. |
| 301.45 H | Hoagland, Jim. | South Africa; civilizations in conflict. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1972. |
| 968 H | Hull , Richard W. | Southern Africa : civilizations in turmoil. New York: New York University Press, c1981. |
| 968.06 L | Lelyveld, Joseph. | Move your shadow: South Africa Black and White. New York: Time Books, c1985. Provides a look at the South African way of life and racial policy. |
| 968.063 L | Levine, Janet | Inside apartheid: one woman's struggle in South Africa. Chicago: Contemporary Books, c1988. Janet Levine describes the struggles against the minority white government's system of repression from the perspective of a white woman attempting to transform it. |
| 921 Luthuli | Luthuli, A. J. | Let my people go. New York, McGraw-Hill [1962] |
| 306.0968 M | Magubane, Peter. | Vanishing cultures of South Africa: changing customs in a changing world. New York: Rizzoli, 1998. The Xhosa--The Zulu--The Ndebele--The Venda--The Tsonga--The Basotho--The Tswana--The Pedi--The Ntwana--The San. |
| 921 Mandela | Mandela, Nelson | Long walk to freedom: the autobiography of Nelson Mandela. Boston: Little, Brown, c1994. |
| 968 M | Marquard, Leopold | A short history of South Africa. New York, Praeger [1968] |
| 921 Matha | Mathabane, Mark. | Kaffir boy in America: an encounter with apartheid. New York: Scribner's, c1989. Mathabane recounts his new life in America and provides a fascinating explanation on Americans mores |
| 968.063 M | Meredith, Martin. | In the name of apartheid: South Africa in the postwar period. New York: Harper and Row, c1988. |
| FIC Mic | Michener, James A. | The covenant. New York: Random House, c1980. A historical novel covering over 15,000 years of history in South Africa and which focuses on three principal families who settled in the region throughout the centuries. The family of Nxumalo; the van Doorns, a Dutch family; and the Saltwoods of England. |
| 342.68 O | Omond, Roger | The apartheid handbook. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. Penguin Books, 1986. On cover: A guide to South Africa's everyday racial policies. Question and answer format provides detailed information about South Africa's apartheid policy. |
| 968 P | Paton, Alan. | South Africa, in transition. Scribner, 1956. |
| 320.9 P | Potholm, Christian P. | Southern Africa in perspective: essays in regional politics. New York: Free Press, [1972] |
| Sc Roc | Rochman, Hazel | Somehow tenderness survives: stories of southern Africa. New York: Harper & Row, c1988. A collection of ten short stories and autobiographical accounts by authors of various races expose the conditions of racism in South Africa. |
| 320.56 R | Rogers, Barbara. | South Africa: the "Bantu Homelands". London: Christian Action Publications, 1972. |
| 320.56 S | Sachs, A. | South Africa: the violence of Apartheid. London: Christian Action, 1970. |
| 329.9 S | Strangwayes-Booth, Joanna. | A cricket in the thorn tree: Helen Suzman and the Progressive Party of South Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1976. |
| 968.3 T | Taylor, Stephen | Shaka's children: a history of the Zulu people. London: HarperCollins, 1995, 1994. |
| 968 T | Thompson, Leonard Monteath. | A history of South Africa. New Haven: Yale University Press, c1990. A history of South Africa focusing on the experiences of the black inhabitants. |
| 309.168 V | Van den Berghe, Pierre L. | South Africa, a study in conflict. Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Press [1965] |
| 305.8 W | Wilson , Francis | South Africa: the cordoned heart. Cape Town: Gallery Press; New York: W.W. Norton & Co., c1986. Prepared for the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa. 28 photographic essays with text. |
| 968 W | Wilson, Monica (Hunter) | The Oxford history of South Africa. New York, Oxford University Press, 1969-71. 1. South Africa to 1870.--2. South Africa, 1870-1966. |
| 921 Biko | Woods, Donald | Biko. New York: H. Holt, c1987. Details the arrest, torture, and killing of Bantu Stephen Biko, a black South African leader, and the persecution of his white journalist friend, Donald Woods. |
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