Vivian Bickford-Smith

A pioneering account of how South Africa's three leading cities were fashioned, experienced, promoted and perceived.

Cities and Identities in the Twentieth Century

The Emergence of the South African Metropolis

Nigel Worden

Elizabeth Van Heyningen

This richly illustrated history of Cape Town under Dutch and British rule tells the story of its residents, the world they inhabited and the city they made - beginning in the seventeenth century with the tiny Dutch settlement, hemmed in by mountains and looking out to sea, and ending with the well-established British colonial city, poised confidently on the threshold of the twentieth century. This social history of Cape Town under Dutch and British rule traces the changing character of the city and portrays the varied lives and experiences of its inhabitants e" black and white, rich and poor, slave and free, Christian and Muslim. The story told in these pages is both immensely readable and endlessly interesting, and is sure to remain for long the definitive history of the city. The volume is illustrated throughout with a wealth of paintings, maps and photographs. The book is written for the general reader as well as academics.

The Making of a City : an Illustrated Social History

Cape Town

Jane Rosenthal

Jean Bottaro

Pippa Visser

Bruce Mohamed

In Search of History

Richard Mendelsohn

Examines how African history has been represented on film.

African History on Screen

Black and White in Colour

An original contribution to South African urban history, focusing on the English merchant class.

Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town

Vivian Bickford-Smith

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