The Lion and the Springbok

Ronald Hyam is Emeritus Reader in British Imperial History, University of Cambridge, and Emeritus Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge. Peter Henshaw is Assistant Professor at Queen's University, Ontario.

'… this study … will give students of the period valuable background material with which to flesh out the history of South African in the twentieth-century.' Contemporary Review

• Frontispiece; List of illustrations; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. The uneasy special relationship: dynamics and divergencies; 2. Breakdown: into war, 1895–9; 3. Post-war: the myth of magnanimity, 1905–7; 4. African interests and the South Africa Act, 1908–10; 5. 'Greater South Africa': the struggle for the High Commission Territories, 1910–61; 6. The economic dimension: South Africa and the sterling area, 1931–61; 7. Britain, the United Nations and the 'South African disputes', 1946–61; 8. The political consequences of Seretse Khama and Ruth, 1948–52; 9. Containing Afrikanerdom: the geopolitical origins of the Central African Federation, 1948–53; 10. Strategy and the transfer of Simon's Town, 1948–57; 11. The parting of the ways: the departure of South Africa from the Commonwealth, 1951–61; 12. Enfeebled lion? How South Africans viewed Britain, 1945–61; 13. Springbok reviled: some British reactions to apartheid, 1948–94; Epilogue: the relationship restored: the return of the new South Africa to the Commonwealth, 1994; Select bibliography; Index.