An Economic History of South Africa

Synopsis of An Economic History of South Africa

«An Economic History of South Africa» is the essay on South African economic history by C. H. Feinstein, published by Cambridge University Press in paperback.

It covers five hundred years of South African economic history: from before the European settlements of 1652 to the post-apartheid era. It analyses the impact of diamonds and gold in the 1870s, the industrial boom during the war years, the land dispossession of the black population and the economic consequences of apartheid from 1948.

Text in English; published in 2005. It belongs to the Ellen McArthur Lectures series and the volume includes bibliography and index.

For students and readers interested in the economic and social history of South Africa, colonialism and apartheid.