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Twentieth-Century South Africa
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Artikel-Nr:
9781108446150
Veröffentl:
2019
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
22.03.2019
Seiten:
270
Autor:
Bill Freund
Gewicht:
396 g
Format:
229x152x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Bill Freund is Professor Emeritus of Built Environment and Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and Visiting Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. His previous books include The African Worker (Cambridge, 1988), The African City: A History (Cambridge, 2007) and The Making of Contemporary Africa (2016).
This unique history highlights South Africa's complex and dynamic attempt to build a developmental state; an attempt that ultimately faltered.
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.