Twentieth-century South Africa : a developmental history /

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Author / Creator:	Freund, Bill, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	x, 259 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Economic development -- South Africa. Economic development. Economic history. Economic policy. South Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1991- South Africa -- Economic policy. South Africa.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11789995

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ISBN:	9781108427401 1108427405 9781108446150 1108446159 9781108654265
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	The twentieth century has brought considerable political, social, and economic change for South Africa. While many would choose to focus only on the issues of race, segregation, and apartheid, this book tries to capture another facet: its drive towards modernisation and industrialisation. While considering the achievements and failures of that drive, as well as how it related to ethnic and racial policy making, Bill Freund makes the economic data come alive by highlighting people and places. He proposes that South Africa in the twentieth century can actually be understood as a nascent developmental state, with economic development acting as a key motivating factor. As a unique history of South Africa in the twentieth century, this will appeal to anyone interested in a new interpretation of modern South African economic development or those in development studies searching for striking historical examples.
Other form:	ebook version : 9781108654265

Table of Contents:

White run South Africa as a developmental state: an interpretive economic history of twentieth century South Africa
The conflicted foundations of industrial policy
Industrial development in South Africa up to the second World War: some figures and some business history
A (near) developmental state forms 1939-48
The impact of apartheid 1948-73
The parastatals ISCOR and SASOL
Key institutions: the IDC, the CSIR, the HSRC
The company towns of the Vaal Triangle
Energy and the natural environment
Developmentalism dismantled.

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