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Beyond Our Wildest Dreams
The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa
Inbunden, 2000
883 kr
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An exploration of the often conflicted relationship between the United Democratic Front's large-scale resistance to apartheid and its everyday struggles at the local level. Interviews with Cachalia and other personalities in the UDF examine the organization's workings.
Beyond Our Wildest Dreams
The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa
Häftad, 2000
343 kr
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An exploration of the often conflicted relationship between the United Democratic Front's large-scale resistance to apartheid and its everyday struggles at the local level. Interviews with Cachalia and other personalities in the UDF examine the organization's workings.
Blood from Your Children
The Colonial Origins of Generational Conflict in South Africa
Häftad, 2000
503 kr
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The South African revolution of the 1990s was predicated on the energy of a youthful black population; one that has been increasingly at odds with its elders since the onset of industrialization in the late-19th-century. This book traces the origins and history of this conflict.
Starving on a Full Stomach
Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa
Av Diana Wylie
Häftad, 2001
474 kr
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An ideology of African ignorance arose in South Africa during the first half of the 20th century: Africans were hungry because they didn't know how to feed themselves properly. This work tells of the foods Africans ate, the maladies they suffered, and how the doctors and politicians reacted.
Afrikaners
Biography of a People
Häftad, 2010
620 kr
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The Afrikaners: Biography of A People, the first comprehensive history of the Afrikaner people based on—and critical of—the most recent scholarly work, draws on the author’s own research and interviews conducted with leading political actors. Hermann Giliomee weaves together life stories and …
One Love, Ghoema Beat
Inside the Cape Town Carnival
Häftad, 2010
340 kr
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One Love, Ghoema Beat: Inside the Cape Town Carnival takes readers behind the scenes of one of the world’s least known and most colorful carnivals. Similar in many ways to Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, the Cape Town Carnival is unique in its history, which is rooted in …
Slavery by Any Other Name
African Life Under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique
Av Eric Allina
Inbunden, 2012
751 kr
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Based on documents from a long-lost and unexplored colonial archive, Slavery by Any Other Name tells the story of how Portugal privatised part of its empire to the Mozambique Company. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the company governed central Mozambique under a royal charter and …
Equality of Believers
Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa
Inbunden, 2012
565 kr
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From the beginning of the nineteenth century through to 1960, Protestant missionaries were the most important intermediaries between South Africa’s ruling white minority and its black majority. The Equality of Believers reconfigures the narrative of race in South Africa by exploring the pivotal …
Cradock
How Segregation and Apartheid Came to a South African Town
Av Jeffrey Butler, Richard Elphick m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
542 kr
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Cradock, the product of more than twenty years of research by Jeffrey Butler, is a vivid history of a middle-sized South African town in the years when segregation gradually emerged, preceding the rapid and rigorous implementation of apartheid. Although Butler was born and raised in Cradock, he …
Historian
An Autobiography
Häftad, 2017
365 kr
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In this eloquent memoir, already widely read and praised in the author’s native South Africa, Hermann Giliomee weaves together the story of his own life with that of his country-a nation that continues to absorb and inspire him, both despite and because of its tortuous history.An internationally …
Finger of God
Enoch Mgijima, the Israelites, and the Bulhoek Massacre in South Africa
Inbunden, 2018
614 kr
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On the morning of May 24, 1921, a force of eight hundred white policemen and soldiers confronted an African prophet, Enoch Mgijima, and some three thousand of his followers. Called the Israelites, they refused to leave their holy village of Ntabelanga, where they had been gathering since early 1919 …
Cowboy Capitalist
John Hays Hammond, the American West, and the Jameson Raid in South Africa
Häftad, 2018
460 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 …
Bound for Work
Labor, Mobility, and Colonial Rule in Central Mozambique, 1940-1965
Inbunden, 2018
614 kr
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Diverging from the studies of southern African migrant labor that focus on particular workplaces and points of origin, Bound for Work looks at the multitude of forms and locales of migrant labor that individuals—under more or less coercive circumstances—engaged in over the course of their lives. …
Sol Plaatje
A Life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, 1876-1932
Av Brian Willan
Häftad, 2019
591 kr
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While the story of modern South Africa has long captured global attention, the story of one of its key forefathers has been eclipsed by those of more iconic political figures. In Sol Plaatje: A Life, Brian Willan restores to history the importance of a remarkable man whose contributions as an …
Violence and Solace
The Natal Civil War in Late-Apartheid South Africa
Inbunden, 2021
542 kr
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The Natal Midlands in South Africa was ravaged by conflict in the 1980s and 1990s between supporters of the United Democratic Front and Inkatha. The violence left thousands of people dead, injured, homeless, and emotionally wounded. In Violence and Solace, Mxolisi Mchunu provides a historical study …
Slavery by Any Other Name
African Life Under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique
Av Eric Allina
Häftad, 2021
460 kr
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Divided by the Word
Colonial Encounters and the Remaking of Zulu and Xhosa Identities
Inbunden, 2022
528 kr
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Divided by the Word refutes the assumption that the entrenched ethnic divide between South Africa’s Zulus and Xhosas, a divide that turned deadly in the late 1980s, is elemental to both societies. Jochen Arndt reveals how the current distinction between the two groups emerged from a long and …
Age of Hubris
Colonialism, Christianity, and the Xhosa in the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2023
1367 kr
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An Age of Hubris is the first comprehensive overview of the impact of missionary enterprise on the Xhosa chiefdoms of South Africa in the first half of the nineteenth century, chronicling a world punctuated by war and millenarian eruptions, and the steady encroachment of settler land hunger and …
Age of Hubris
Colonialism, Christianity, and the Xhosa in the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2023
432 kr
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An Age of Hubris is the first comprehensive overview of the impact of missionary enterprise on the Xhosa chiefdoms of South Africa in the first half of the nineteenth century, chronicling a world punctuated by war and millenarian eruptions, and the steady encroachment of settler land hunger and …
Becoming Zimbabwean
A History of Indians in Rhodesia
Inbunden, 2026
1408 kr
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The first comprehensive history of Indian migrants and their descendants in Zimbabwe Becoming Zimbabwean tells the long-overdue story of the Indian community in the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. Centering the stories of individuals and families, and building on a …
Becoming Zimbabwean
A History of Indians in Rhodesia
Häftad, 2026
401 kr
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The first comprehensive history of Indian migrants and their descendants in Zimbabwe Becoming Zimbabwean tells the long-overdue story of the Indian community in the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. Centering the stories of individuals and families, and building on a …
Shifting Solidarities
The South African Anti-Apartheid Movement's Perceptions of Zionism
Inbunden, 2026
1367 kr
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Examining the evolution of South African activists' attitude toward the state of IsraelIn recent decades, scholars and activists have increasingly drawn on the language of apartheid to describe the sociopolitical situation in Israel and Palestine. In South Africa today, Israel is notorious for its …
Shifting Solidarities
The South African Anti-Apartheid Movement's Perceptions of Zionism
Häftad, 2026
432 kr
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Examining the evolution of South African activists' attitude toward the state of IsraelIn recent decades, scholars and activists have increasingly drawn on the language of apartheid to describe the sociopolitical situation in Israel and Palestine. In South Africa today, Israel is notorious for its …
Inevitable Satirists
South African Humor During the Union Period
Inbunden, 2027
1534 kr
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How South Africa's diverse comic traditions emerged from its acrimonious racial and cultural debatesSometimes all you can do is laugh. From the raucous stages of Cape Town to the backroom watering holes of Sophiatown, Inevitable Satirists offers a groundbreaking look at the historical roots of …
Inevitable Satirists
South African Humor During the Union Period
Häftad, 2027
376 kr
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How South Africa's diverse comic traditions emerged from its acrimonious racial and cultural debatesSometimes all you can do is laugh. From the raucous stages of Cape Town to the backroom watering holes of Sophiatown, Inevitable Satirists offers a groundbreaking look at the historical roots of …
Starving on a Full Stomach
Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa
Av Diana Wylie
Inbunden, 2001
932 kr
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An ideology of African ignorance arose in South Africa during the first half of the 20th century: Africans were hungry because they didn't know how to feed themselves properly. This work tells of the foods Africans ate, the maladies they suffered, and how the doctors and politicians reacted.
Social Death and Resurrection
Slavery and Emancipation in South Africa
Inbunden, 2003
932 kr
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What was it like to be a slave in colonial South Africa? What difference did freedom make? The questions themselves are simply put, but John Edwin Mason has found complex answers after delving deeply into the slaves' experience within the slaveholding patriarchal household, the work that slaves …
Social Death and Resurrection
Slavery and Emancipation in South Africa
Häftad, 2003
340 kr
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What was it like to be a slave in colonial South Africa? What difference did freedom make? The questions themselves are simply put, but John Edwin Mason has found complex answers after delving deeply into the slaves' experience within the slaveholding patriarchal household, the work that slaves …
Rise and Fall of Apartheid
Av David Welsh
Häftad, 2010
499 kr
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On his way into Parliament on February 2, 1990, F. W. de Klerk turned to his wife Marike and said, referring to his forthcoming speech: ""South Africa will never be the same again after this."" Did white South Africa crack, or did its leadership yield sufficiently and just in time to avert a …
Last Afrikaner Leaders
A Supreme Test of Power
Häftad, 2013
513 kr
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In his latest book, renowned historian Hermann Giliomee challenges the conventional wisdom on the downfall of white rule and the end of apartheid. Instead of impersonal forces, or the resourcefulness of an indomitable resistance movement, he emphasises the role of Nationalist leaders and of their …
