Sharpeville : an apartheid massacre and its consequences /

Sharpeville : an apartheid massacre and its consequences /

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Author / Creator:	Lodge, Tom, 1951-
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Description:	xix, 423 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The making of the modern world Making of the modern world (Oxford University Press)
Subject:	Sharpeville Massacre (South Africa : 1960) Sharpeville Massacre, Sharpeville, South Africa, 1960. South Africa -- Sharpeville.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8456974

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ISBN:	9780192801852 (acid-free paper) 0192801856 (acid-free paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-409) and index.
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 event 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.

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Call Number:	DT1941 .L63 2011
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