The International Journal of African Historical Studies, January 1st, 2007
White Rising: The 1922 Insurrection and Racial Killing in South Africa. By Jeremy Krikler. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 405; 39 illustrations. $59.95. This is a wonderfully tight and painstaking microanalysis of the "Rand Revolt" of 1922. It was a short-lived miners' strike that began on 10 January, evolved into a declaration of a general strike on 6 March and then into a regional insurrection in the second week in March. By 16 March the last of the killings occurred and on 17 March the strike was abandoned, the miners utterly defeated. In a few intense...
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