The Lion and the Springbok

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.