Research Catalog

Title

Sharpeville : an apartheid massacre and its consequences / Tom Lodge.

Author

Lodge, Tom, 1951-

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Supplementary Content

V:DE-603;B:DE-30

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Description

xix, 423 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

• "On 21 March 1060 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the even has become known, signalled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's Apartheid policies. The events at Sharpeville deeply affected the attitudes of both black and white in South Africa and provided a major stimulus to the development of an international 'Anti-Apartheid' movement. In Sharpeville, Tom Lodge explains how and why the Massacre occurred. In the light of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission revelations, and drawing on significant new evidence including interviews with survivors, Lodge presents a reassessment of the crisis that led to the Massacre, looking at the social and political background to the events of March 1960, as well as the sequence of events that prompted the shootings themselves"--Cover, p. 2.
• 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.

Series Statement

The making of the modern world

Uniform Title

Making of the modern world (Oxford University Press)

Subjects

• Sharpeville Massacre, Sharpeville, South Africa, 1960
• South Africa > Politics and government > 1961-1978
• South Africa > Race relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-409) and index.

Contents

Voices from a massacre -- Pan-Africanist preparations -- The Sharpeville shootings -- The Cape Town marchers -- Aftermath: effects and consequences -- The anti-apartheid movement -- Sharpeville and memory.

Call Number

Sc E 12-180

ISBN

• 9780192801852 (acid-free paper)
• 0192801856 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

2011929284

OCLC

679931154

Author

Lodge, Tom, 1951-

Title

Sharpeville : an apartheid massacre and its consequences / Tom Lodge.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Series

The making of the modern world

Making of the modern world (Oxford University Press)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-409) and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

http://scans.hebis.de/HEBCGI/show.pl?23250979_toc.pdf

Research Call Number

Sc E 12-180