THE IMPERIAL FACTOR IN SOUTH AFRICA:

341 pages. Cloth.                                                                                   

De Kiewiet was a far-sighted historian and this book is, like his HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA, "a classic of South African historiography." [Prof. C. C. Saunders, THE MAKING OF SOUTH AFRICA, page 88]. He felt that the problems faced in the last quarter of the 19th century had resonance in the 20th and at the heart of all policy in South Africa was how black South Africans could be incorporated into "European society".