Nelson Mandela by
In 1964 Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1994 he was elected president of South Africa. How did this happen? Twentieth-Century History Makers examines the lives of some of the most famous and infamous personalities of the last 100 years and assesses the impact each had on the world in which we live today.
Nelson Mandela long walk to freedom by
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Here counts the surprisingly eventful twenty-seven years in prison and the complex, delicate negotiations that led both to his freedom and to the beginning of the end of apartheid.
Who Was Nelson Mandela? by
Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 Juvenile literature.
Presidents South Africa Biography Juvenile literature.
Anti-apartheid activists South Africa Biography Juvenile literature.
Political prisoners South Africa Biography Juvenile literature.
Anti-apartheid movements South Africa Juvenile literature.
South Africa Politics and government 1948-1994 Juvenile literature.
South Africa Politics and government 1994- Juvenile literature.
Children's world history encyclopedia by 
Encyclopedia of World History by
A survey of history from ancient civilizations to the present, with over 1,000 illustrations, maps, date panels of key interest, and quick reference timelines.
Illustrated history of 20th century conflict. by
Curriculum keywords: South Africa - Apartheid - Nelson Mandela - Steve Biko - Verwoerd killing - De Klerk's reforms - Johannesburg riots - Sharpeville eviction - Soweto riots.
Photos That Changed the World by
Curriculum keywords: Soweto uprising - Nelson Mandela release from prison.- Fall of the Berlin Wall.
The twentieth century : a world transformed 1900-95 by
Curriculum keywords: Atomic Bomb - Bay of Pigs - Berlin blockade - Bolsheviks - Leonid Brezhnev - Battle of britain - Fidel Castro - Chiang Kai Shek - Cuban Missile crisis - Detente - Gallipoli - Mikhail Gorbachev - Adolf Hitler - Ho Chi Minh - Holocaust - Ku Klux Klan - John F. Kennedy - Vladimir Lenin - Mao Zedong - Pearl harbor - Prohibition - Ronald Reagan - Rasputin - Battle of the Somme - Josef Stalin - Battle of Stalingrad - Truman Doctrine - U-Boats - Treat of Versailles - Wall Street crash - Yalta Conference - Battles of Ypres.
The twentieth century world by 
South Africa in Africa by
The South African ruling class under the apartheid regime saw itself more as a part of "white Christian civilization" then as a part of Africa and the end of apartheid therefore raises many questions concerning South Africa's role on the continent. Adebajo (Centre for Conflict Resolution, U. of Cape Town, South Africa), Adedeji (African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies, Nigeria), and Landsberg (Centre for Policy Studies, South Africa) present 13 essays assessing the country's engagement in Africa in the decade following apartheid.
South Africa since 1948 : a study in depth by
Examines the importance of history to Sth. Africans - Racial segregration - National Party popularity especially among white voters - Apartheid and black Sth. African resistance to it between 1948 and 1976 - Changes in attitude by white people and the collapse of apartheid by 1989.
Timelines world of history. by
Curriculum keywords: Apartheid - South Africa - Nelson Mandela - Soweto riots.
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Apartheid, 1948-1994 by
his new study offers a fresh interpretation of apartheid South Africa. Emerging out of the author's long-standing interests in the history of racial segregation, and drawing on a great deal of new scholarship, archival collections, and personal memoirs, he situates apartheid in global as well as local contexts.
Apartheid in South Africa by
How do we know? -- South Africa in 1910 -- Discrimination -- Early opposition to white rule -- South Africa adopts apartheid -- How apartheid worked -- For Europeans only -- Resistance grows -- Sharpeville -- A change of tactics -- South Africa is isolated -- Life for whites -- Life for nonwhites -- The Bantustans -- Soweto -- The terrorist state -- Pressure from inside -- Pressure from outside -- First cracks -- The end of apartheid -- Reconciliation -- Today and the future -- What have we learned from apartheid?
From Apartheid to Democracy by
Apartheid.
Deliberative democracy.
Post-apartheid era.
Rhetoric.
South Africa.
South Africa 1948-94 : the rise and fall of apartheid : updated to cover the ANC governments of Mandela and Mbeki, 1994-2000 by 
