Leonard Thompson

Leonard Thompson is Charles J. Stillé Professor of History Emeritus at Yale. His books include The Political Mythology of Apartheid and A History of South Africa. (May 1998)

From the Review

May 14, 1998: Comparatively Speaking

The Comparative Imagination: On the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements by George M. Fredrickson

Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa by George M. Fredrickson

Comrades in Business: Post-Liberation Politics in South Africa by Heribert Adam, by Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, by Kogila Moodley

June 14, 1990: South Africa: The Fire This Time?

The Mind of South Africa by Allister Sparks

June 11, 1987: Before the Revolution

King Solomon's Mines Revisited: Western Interests and the Burdened History of South Africa by William Minter

Black and Gold by Anthony Sampson

South Africa: Time of Agony, Time of Destiny by Martin Murray

The Politics of Economic Power in Southern Africa by Ronald T. Libby

November 20, 1986: Boers and Progressives (letter)

October 23, 1986: What Is To Be Done?

Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid by William Finnegan

South Africa Without Apartheid: Dismantling Racial Domination by Heribert Adam, by Kogila Moodley

Beggar Your Neighbours: Apartheid Power in Southern Africa by Joseph Hanlon

July 17, 1986: Diamonds Are Forever

The Randlords by Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Books by Leonard Thompson

A History of South Africa (1990)
The Political Mythology of Apartheid (1985)
South African Politics (1982)
Survival in Two Worlds: Moshoeshoe of Lesotho, 1786-1870 (1975)
Southern African History Before 1900: A Select Bibliography of Articles (1971)