Leonard Thompson (author)

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Name Leonard Thompson Role Author		Died June 2004 Education Rhodes University

Books The political mythology of apartheid, Survival in two worlds, South African politics, Sea to sky Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Leonard Thompson (born 6 March 1916, in Cranborne, Dorset, England - died June 2004) was Charles J. Stillé Professor of History Emeritus at Yale and director of the former Yale Southern African Research Program. He has written and edited many books, including The Political Mythology of Apartheid, The Frontier in History (with Howard Lamar), A History of South Africa, and South African Politics (with Andrew Prior), all published by Yale University Press.

Leonard Thompson (author) A History of South Africa Third Edition Leonard Thompson

Publications

The Unification of South Africa: 1902-1910 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1960).

"Afrikaner nationalist historiography and the policy of apartheid." Journal of African History 3#1 (1962): 125-141.

Editor, African societies in Southern Africa: historical studies (London: Heinemann, 1969).

Thompson, Leonard (1976). Survival in two worlds : Moshoeshoe of Lesotho, 1786-1870. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198216939.

edited with Monica Wilson: The Oxford History of South Africa: South Africa to 1870. Vol. 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969).

The Political Mythology of Apartheid (1986).

A History of South Africa (1st ed. 1990; 4th ed. 2014 with Lynn Berat).

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