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  • A History of South Africa: Revised Edition

    by Leonard Thompson ...
    A leading scholar of South Africa provides a fresh and penetrating exploration of that country’s history, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present. Focusing primarily on the experiences of its black inhabitants, this richly illustrated book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the historical patterns behind the conflicts that rage in this troubled ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • A History of South Africa to 1870

    Edited by Monica Wilson, Leonard Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: South Africa
    Originally published in 1982 and based on the 1969 Oxford History of South Africa, this book discusses some of the trends in the historiography of South Africa before the beginning of large-scale mining operations in Kimberley in 1870. A deliberate attempt was made to look at the roots of South African society and to take due account of all its peoples. The book includes a survey of archaeological ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • South Africa: History in an Hour

    by Anthony Holmes ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.With the passing of Nelson Mandela, ‘the father of the nation’, comes the end of an era, and the moment to look back on his remarkable saving, and remaking, of South Africa. After years of oppression and racial inequality, concentrated violence and apartheid, Mandela led the country to unite ‘for the freedom of us all’ as the country’s first ... Read more

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  • The Girl in the Spider's Web

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    by David Lagercrantz ...
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    $12.99 USD

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  • Understanding Africa Book 1

    by Brian Ross ...
    Anyone about to work in Africa will find this book instructive. It looks at the troubled history of the African continent south of the Sahara Desert. Readers learn of the early slave trade across the Sahara to destinations in the Middle East. This volume shows Portuguese explorers edging around the coast in search of gold, ivory and a sea route to the East. The history of colonialism is outlined ... Read more

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  • The Brutish Museums

    The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution

    by Dan Hicks ...
    New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020'Essential' – Sunday Times'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books'A real game-changer'– EconomistWalk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen ... Read more

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  • The Land is Ours

    Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa

    by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi ...
    The Land Is Ours tells the story of South Africa’s first black lawyers, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an age of aggressive colonial expansion, land dispossession and forced labour, these men believed in a constitutional system that respected individual rights and freedoms, and they used the law as an instrument against injustice.The book follows the lives, ideas and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Chronicles Of Tshabalala Clan In Mhlongamvula & Its Exodus

    by Nelson Makhubane Tshabalala ...
    "If history is written by victors, then this historic book,Which chronicles the lives and immeasurable success ofTshabalala clan at its ancestral land in Mhlongamvula as well as its unceremonious exit in 1816 and in the 1860s respectively, should have been composed well before the 21st Century. There is a saying that says: "History is not written by the victorious but it is written by historians". ... Read more

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  • A Century of Wrong

    by F. W. Reitz ...
    At the advent of the South African War (Second Anglo-Boer War), F.W. Reitz, in his capacity of State Secretary of the South African Republic, published an overview of Anglo-Boer relations in the nineteenth century in Dutch, under the title Eene eeuw van onrecht. The book was an important propaganda instrument against the British. ... Read more

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  • Apartheid In South Africa - Origins And Impact

    by Seth Asiedu Asante ...
    This book was first published in 1987 when South African Apartheid policy generated much public discussion all over the world. This book, “Apartheid in South Africa: Origins and Impact", is a book which can serve the dual purpose of informing the general reader, of the historical background to Apartheid; and of placing a textbook at the disposal of students preparing for various examinations on ... Read more

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  • A Concise History of South Africa

    by Robert Ross ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    Lays emphasis on the continuing influence of the country's African heritage whilst also chronicling the processes of colonial conquest and of economic development stemming from the industrial revolution. This is followed by an analysis of the fundamental political changes South Africa has undergone, and a background for understanding those many things which have not changed. ... Read more

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  • The Dead will Arise

    Nongqawuse and the great Xhosa cattle killing 1856-7

    by Jeff Peires ...
    The Dead Will Arise tells the story of Nongqawuse, the young Xhosa girl whose prophecy of the resurrection of the dead lured an entire people to death by starvation. The Great Cattle-Killing of 1856-57, which she initiated, is one of the most extraordinary and misunderstood events in South Africa's history. Jeff Peires was the first historian to draw on all available sources, from oral tradition ... Read more

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