South Africa's 1940s, Worlds of Possibilities - Saul Dubow & Alan Jeeves

South Africa's 1940s, Worlds of Possibilities - Saul Dubow & Alan Jeeves

Softcover

ISBN 1770130012

Publisher: Double Storey Books 2005

Used - Very Good. This book is in very good condition. The wraps have some slight/limited signs of wear, and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.

The 1940s was a turbulent period in the history of South Africa. It opened with parliaments bitterly contested decision to enter the war; was rocked by political turmoil; and ended with a bang, as well as a whimper, as the National Party captured political power in 1948.

Most see it as a decade that led inexorably towards apartheid, but the coming of Afrikaner nationalism was only one of several competing visions of the future. The decade was in fact marked by a general sense of expectancy and optimism that the end of the war would usher in a brave new world. New worlds of possibilities were envisioned on all sides. Reform, social and political, was in the air.

But in the end, it turned out to be a Prague spring, and the kinds of reforms that many envisaged were dealt a death blow, only to be resurrected 40 years later with the demise of Afrikaner nationalism. These worlds of possibilities are explored more fully in this volume.