Cape Town in the twentieth century - An Illustrated Social History

Cape Town in the twentieth century 

By Vivian Bickford-Smith - Elizabeth van Heyningen and Nigel Worden 

Published by David Philip, 1999, 

First edition, A 4 format, with dust wrapper, good illustrated, 255 pages.

Good condition.

This richly illustrated history of Cape Town in the present century tells the story of its residents, the world they have inhabited and the city they have made. It begins with the British colonial town poised on the brink of the Anglo Boer War and ends with the modern African city, struggling with the legacy of social division and poverty yet approaching the new millennium with an undiminished sense of its beauty