Overturns the common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion. Without understating the role of violent intervention, this book shows that apartheid was sustained by a great and ever-swelling bureaucracy.
"Most writing on South Africa-scholarly and otherwise-has concentrated on showing what it meant for Africans to be caught in the web; Evans writes about what it meant to spin it."-Frederick Cooper, editor of Tensions of Empire
