Sharpeville : an apartheid massacre and its consequences /

An account of the social and political background to the notorious Sharpeville Massacre of March 1960, which looks both at the sequence of events that prompted the shootings and also their long-term consequences for South African politics, both domestically and in the country's relationship wit...

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Main Author: Lodge, Tom, 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Making of the modern world (Oxford University Press)
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Summary:An account of the social and political background to the notorious Sharpeville Massacre of March 1960, which looks both at the sequence of events that prompted the shootings and also their long-term consequences for South African politics, both domestically and in the country's relationship with the rest of the world.
Physical Description:xix, 423 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-409) and index.
ISBN:9780192801852
0192801856