Charles Van Onselen is the acclaimed author of several books including The Fox and the Flies, Masked Raiders, and The Seed is Mine, which won the Alan Paton in 1997 and was voted as one of the best books to emerge from Africa in the 20th century. Showdown at the Red Lion has been opted for a TV series. Van Onselen has been honoured with visiting fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and Oxford, and was the inaugural Oppenheimer Fellow at Harvard's WEB Du Bois Institute. He is currently Research Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria.

Charles van Onselens richly informative and gripping Cowboy Capitalist offers intrigue, betrayal and suspense worthy of a spy thriller in a deeply documented account of international entrepreneurial capitalism, labour exploitation, and political conspiracy in the age of imperialism. -- Robert E. May, Professor Emeritus of History, Purdue University

Charles Van Onselen is the acclaimed author of several books including The Fox and the Flies, Masked Raiders, and The Seed is Mine, which won the Alan Paton in 1997 and was voted as one of the best books to emerge from Africa in the 20th century. Showdown at the Red Lion has been opted for a TV series. Van Onselen has been honoured with visiting fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and Oxford, and was the inaugural Oppenheimer Fellow at Harvard's WEB Du Bois Institute. He is currently Research Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria.

Charles van Onselens richly informative and gripping Cowboy Capitalist offers intrigue, betrayal and suspense worthy of a spy thriller in a deeply documented account of international entrepreneurial capitalism, labour exploitation, and political conspiracy in the age of imperialism. -- Robert E. May, Professor Emeritus of History, Purdue University

Charles Van Onselen is the acclaimed author of several books including The Fox and the Flies, Masked Raiders, and The Seed is Mine, which won the Alan Paton in 1997 and was voted as one of the best books to emerge from Africa in the 20th century. Showdown at the Red Lion has been opted for a TV series. Van Onselen has been honoured with visiting fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and Oxford, and was the inaugural Oppenheimer Fellow at Harvard's WEB Du Bois Institute. He is currently Research Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria.

Charles van Onselens richly informative and gripping Cowboy Capitalist offers intrigue, betrayal and suspense worthy of a spy thriller in a deeply documented account of international entrepreneurial capitalism, labour exploitation, and political conspiracy in the age of imperialism. -- Robert E. May, Professor Emeritus of History, Purdue University