In the revised version of this work, Leonard Thompson has added a new to a democratic one. A substantial new preface has also been added, and footnotes have been expanded. Above all, this exploration of South Africa's history - from the earliest known human settlement of the region to the present - focuses primarily on the experiences of its black inhabitants, rather than those of its white minority.
- ISBN10 0300065426
- ISBN13 9780300065428
- Publish Date 24 January 1996 (first published 10 September 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 September 2006
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English