Segregation has fallen on evil days : Smuts' South Africa, global war, and transnational politics, 1939–46

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Hyslop, Jonathan

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Cambridge University Press

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South African state policy in the 1940s moved in significantly new political directions that were not simply the prelude to apartheid. This shift, under the leadership of Jan Smuts, towards a welfarist management of black urbanization, can only be understood by focusing on transnational dimensions of the period that have been neglected by historians of South Africa. The reorganization of the state was made possible as a consequence of the business of fighting a global war. South African policy changes were intimately linked to the evolution of British colonial policy. And the South African interventions in world politics to support the creation of the United Nations and to reconfigure the southern African subcontinent were to have drastic and unforeseen consequences.

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Decolonization, Jan Smuts, Second World War, United Nations

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Jonathan Hyslop (2012). ‘Segregation has fallen on evil days’: Smuts' South Africa, global war, and transnational politics, 1939–46. Journal of Global History, 7, pp 438460 DOI: 10.1017/S1740022812000277.