The Making of a Racist State: British Imperialism and the Union of South Africa

Dr. Bernard M. Magubane documents and analyzes the chain of events--the centuries-long British subjugation of Ireland; the impoverishment and forced emigration of millions of British citizens; the discovery of fabulous mineral deposits at Kimberly and Witwatersrand; and the Anglo-Boer War with its strange resolution--that led up to the passage of 1909 of the 'South African Act' by the British Parliament.