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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780797442665Author Marieke ClarkeFormat PaperbackImprint Amagugu PublishersPublisher Amagugu PublishersWeight(grams) 445g

For 250 years the author's family spread across the globe, helping to expand the British Empire and paint the map red. This is a personal reckoning with that dubious legacy, echoing down to the present in South Africa. It begins with the 'discovery' of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957083738Author Edwin ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Jeppestown PressPublisher Jeppestown PressWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957083745Author Eugen MansfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Jeppestown PressPublisher Jeppestown PressWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618758258Author Adam HochschildFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780797492509Author Pathisa NyathiFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Amagugu PublishersPublisher Amagugu PublishersWeight(grams) 286g

This book offers the first comprehensive history of white workers from the end of the First World War to Zimbabwean independence in 1980. It reveals how white worker identity was constituted, examines the white labouring class as an ethnically and...

The demise of apartheid was one of the great achievements of postwar history, sought after and celebrated by a progressive global community. Looking at these events from the other side, An African Volk explores how the apartheid state strove to maintain...

First comprehensive account of the origins and early history of the Chewa as revealed by oral tradition and archaeology that allows a more accurate picture of a pre-literate society. The Chewa are the largest ethnic group in Malawi, representing a...

Provides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual violence, and the legacies of the liberation struggle. WINNER OF THE RHS GLADSTONE BOOK PRIZE 2022 ...

When the Second Boer War erupted in South Africa in 1899, Great Britain was confident that victory would come quickly and decisively. Instead, the war lasted for three grueling years. To achieve final victory, the British government was forced to depend...

The sense of place and of senses porous to land and sea bring to life this stand-out sequence of poems. The voice, at once conversational and distinctive, is enraging and personal. There's an ache at the core of the beauty here, not of self-pity or of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641286718Author Kristine SpanierFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Pogo BooksPublisher Pogo BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 193mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620959575Author Mike DwightFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Quickfox PublishingPublisher Quickfox PublishingWeight(grams) 308g

Native Life in South Africa (1916) is a book by Solomon T. Plaatje. Written while Plaatje was serving as General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress, the work shows the influence of American activist and socialist historian W. E. B...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620784696Author David Hilton-BarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint ImprintPublisher ImprintWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

This is the first in-depth study of Sharpeville, the South African township that was the site of the infamous police massacre of March 21, 1960, the event that prompted the United Nations to declare apartheid a "crime against humanity."Voices of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987043726Author Alexander ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MercuryPublisher Burnet Media

In 1879, the British colony of Natal invaded the neighboring Zulu kingdom. Large numbers of Natal Africans fought with the British against the Zulus, enabling the British to claim victory and, ultimately, to annex the Zulu kingdom. Less than thirty years...

For nearly three decades, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), waged a violent revolutionary struggle against the apartheid state in South Africa. Stephen Davis works with extensive oral testimonies and the...

In 1953 Dag Hammarskjoeld became the second Secretary-General of the United Nations--the highest international civil servant. Before his mission was cut short by a 1961 plane crash in then Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), he used his office to act on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739780708Author Craig W. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Godwinson PressPublisher Godwinson Press

How were whites implicated in and shaped by apartheid culture and society, and how did they contribute to it? In Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society, historian Neil Roos traces the lives of ordinary white people in South Africa during the apartheid...

As much a rigorous historical exploration as a culinary reference, this book offers a delicately compiled biography of Nelson Mandela through the recipes that have been the backdrop, and occasionally the primary cause, for momentous personal and...

Writing more than one hundred years ago, African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois speculated that the great dilemma of the twentieth century would be the problem of "the color line." Nowhere was the dilemma of racial discrimination more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546874Author Jonathan SilverFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781485309352Author Richard WadleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 500g

This is a wide-ranging and trenchant critical account of South Africa since 1994, focusing particularly upon the follies and failures of the ANC government over the past 25 years. It anatomises an acute social, economic and political crisis, and argues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620683524Author Timothy J. StapletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Amava Heritage Publishing Pty LtdPublisher Amava Heritage Publishing Pty...

When Namibia gained its independence in 1990 after 23 years of war, most of the eleven Namibians whose life histories make up this book were in their mid-thirties. To that point their whole adult lives had been lived in the struggle, more than half of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982149734Author Justice MalalaFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 445g

South Africa in World History is the first survey of South African history to range from prehistory to the present, the first to fully integrate social history and women's history, and the first to emphasize connections between the United States and...

Taking one of the most famous campaigns in British military history, Daniel Mersey gives a wargamer's perspective of the dramatic events of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and offers advice on how to recreate these on the gaming table. The author discusses...

Botswana has been portrayed as a major case of exception in Africa - as an oasis of peace and harmony with an enduring parliamentary democracy, blessed with remarkable diamond-driven economic growth. Whereas the "failure" of other states on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780639746241Author Steve ChadwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Digital on DemandPublisher Digital on DemandWeight(grams) 263g

A brutally honest expose, After Mandela provides a sobering portrait of a country caught between a democratic future and a political meltdown. Recent works have focused primarily on Nelson Mandela's transcendent story. But Douglas Foster, a leading South...

From Protest to Challenge is a multi-volume chronicle of the struggle to achieve democracy and end racial discrimination in South Africa. Beginning in 1882 during the heyday of European imperialism, these volumes document the history of race conflict,...

It is well known that the Anglo American Group of companies is a major force in the economic, political, and social life of South Africa, and that its influence extends deep into the rest of Africa, as well, as Europe, North and South America, Australia,...

The people of Zimbabwe are brutalised, disenfranchised, starved. This is the only book to tell the full story of the birth of a dictatorship, including the 2008 election travesty. Robert Gabriel Mugabe, a former teacher and guerrilla leader, swept to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959821Author Barry CliffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & Company