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16 produkter
Night Trains
Moving Mozambican Miners to and from the Witwatersrand Mines, 1902-1955
E-bok, 2021
479 kr
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This seminal book reveals how black labor was exploited in twentieth-century South Africa, the human costs of which are still largely hidden from history. It was the people of southern Mozambique, bent double beneath the historical loads of forced labor and slavery, then sold off en masse as …
Night Trains
Moving Mozambican Miners to and from the Witwatersrand Mines, 1902-1955
E-bok, 2021
479 kr
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This seminal book reveals how black labor was exploited in twentieth-century South Africa, the human costs of which are still largely hidden from history. It was the people of southern Mozambique, bent double beneath the historical loads of forced labor and slavery, then sold off en masse as …
Cowboy Capitalist
John Hays Hammond, the American West, and the Jameson Raid in South Africa
Häftad, 2018
454 kr
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The Jameson Raid was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of South Africa in 1910. For more than a century, the failed revolution has been interpreted through the lens of British imperialism, with responsibility laid …
Fox and the Flies
The Criminal World of the Whitechapel Murderer
E-bok, 2011
108 kr
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At the end of the nineteenth century European pimps and 'white slavers' established a hugely successful global market for commercial sex and for three turbulent decades before the First World War, Joseph Silver was central to this hidden world of betrayal, intrigue, lust and sexual slavery. …
MAKINGS OF AN AFRICAN ECONOMIC TRAGEDY - Volume 1/Three Wise Monkeys
Häftad, 2023
228 kr
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Three Wise Monkeys
The Making of an African Economic Tragedy
E-bok, 2023
175 kr
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Volume 1 of Three Wise Monkeys explores the Portuguese colonisation of Mozambique, and the gradual transformation of the colony into a reservoir of cheap labour, first during the Atlantic slave trade and then during the rise of the voracious Rand mining industry.Mozambique became locked into …
Three Wise Monkeys
Through the Turnstiles of the Mind
E-bok, 2023
171 kr
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Volume 2 of Three Wise Monkeys explores Catholic Mozambique''s role in the leisure economy of Protestant South Africa, as a place where bachelor miners and Randlords alike could project their fantasies of subtropical exotica, whether in the raucous bars and brothels of the port or in the …
Three Wise Monkeys
The Quest for Wealth Without Work
E-bok, 2023
171 kr
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The Three Wise Monkeys trilogy culminates with a forensic examination of South Africa''s long struggle to suppress gambling, and especially lotteries. The opposition of the Calvinist churches – both Afrikaans and English-speaking – had its counterpart in the eager embrace of games of chance by the …
Night Trains
Moving Mozambican Miners to and from the Witwatersrand Mines, 1902–1955
Häftad, 2020
416 kr
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This seminal book reveals how black labour was exploited in twentieth-century South Africa, the human costs of which are still largely hidden from history. It was the people of southern Mozambique, bent double beneath the historical loads of forced labour and slavery, then sold off en masse as …
Showdown at the red lion
The life and time of Jack McLoughlin
Häftad, 2015
288 kr
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Johannesburg was -- and is -- the Frontier of Money. Within months of its founding, the mining camp was host to organised crime: the African "Regiment of the Hills" and "Irish Brigade" bandits. Bars, brothels, boarding houses and hotels oozed testosterone and violence, and the use of fists and guns …
cowboy capitalist
John Hays Hammond, the American West and the Jameson raid
Inbunden, 2017
382 kr
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The Jameson Raid was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of South Africa in 1910. For over a century the failed revolution has been interpreted through the lens of British imperialism, with responsibility laid at …
Seed is Mine
The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper 1894–1985
Häftad, 2019
368 kr
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A bold and innovative social history, The Seed Is Mine concerns the disenfranchised blacks who did so much to shape the destiny of South Africa. After years of interviews with Kas Maine and his neighbors, employers, friends, and family – a rare triumph of collaborative courage and dedication – …
Seed is Mine
The life of Kas Maine, a South African sharecropper 1894–1985
E-bok, 2019
160 kr
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A bold and innovative social history, The Seed Is Mine concerns the disenfranchised blacks who did so much to shape the destiny of South Africa. After years of interviews with Kas Maine and his neighbors, employers, friends, and family – a rare triumph of collaborative courage and dedication – …
