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  • The South Africa Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Edited by Clifton Crais, Thomas V. McClendon ...
    Series series The World Readers
    The South Africa Reader is an extraordinarily rich guide to the history, culture, and politics of South Africa. With more than eighty absorbing selections, the Reader provides many perspectives on the country's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, and the forces that have shaped its history and continue to pose challenges to its future, particularly violence, inequality, and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Writing Early Modern Loneliness

    Edited by Hannah Yip, Thomas Clifton ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This interdisciplinary collection of ten essays is the first to redefine historical conceptions of “loneliness” in the Western world by exploring its manifestation in early modern textual sources. Contrary to current scholarly consensus that loneliness in Britain was understood as an emotion from the late eighteenth century, only beginning to emerge in its literary form in the writings of the ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD

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  • Diamonds, Gold, and War

    The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa

    by Martin Meredith ...
    Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land. The result was the costliest, bloodiest, and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Haunted Africa: True Ghost Stories Part I

    by Mary Devey ...
    If you are ready for some ghostly haunts around Africa, then you might like some of the stories told in Part I where Africa's goblin is said to wreck many lives, break countless marriages and cast just about any trouble and mischief it knows in everyone's way. Then there are witches in Africa…lots of them who drink blood and destroy everything they know if they can only get what they like in ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After Mandela: The Struggle for Freedom in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    The Struggle for Freedom in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    by Douglas Foster ...
    The most important historical and journalistic portrait to date of a nation whose destiny will determine the fate of a continent.A brutally honest exposé, 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 Africa authority ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Mirror at Midnight

    A South African Journey

    by Adam Hochschild ...
    A "stunning blend of reportage, travelogue, history and meditation" by the New York Times–bestselling author of King Leopold's Ghost ( Publishers Weekly).National Book Award finalist Adam Hochschild brings a lifetime's familiarity with South Africa to bear in this eye-opening examination of a critical turning point in that nation's history: the Great Trek of 1836–39, during which Dutch-speaking ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The South African Story - 4th Edition

    by Ron McGregor ...
    Ron McGregor is a South African tour-guide and writer. This book - now in it's 4th edition - was written in response to popular demand for a book about South Africa that isn't too weighty or academic. Until recently, there was no such single book, so Ron sat down and wrote it. And, because it was written to entertain as much as to educate, he stuck to his raconteurial style. It's an easy read, but ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cape Town to Kruger: Backpacker Adventures in South Africa and Swaziland

    Round The World Travels, #1

    by John Dwyer ...
    Series Book 1 - Round The World Travels
    Take a Walk on the Wild Side...Join travel adventurer John Dwyer on his epic journey from vibrant Cape Town to wild Kruger Park. Aided by his vivid descriptions and colorful commentary, you will come face to face with Great White sharks, get off the beaten track on the Wild Coast, soak up the raw energy of the townships, spot dangerous animals in Kruger National Park and wonder at the incredible ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The War In South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct

    by Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    The War In South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct by Arthur Conan Doyle. For some reason, which may be either arrogance or apathy, the British are very slow to state their case to the world.At present the reasons for our actions and the methods which we have used are set forth in many Blue books, tracts, and leaflets, but have never, so far as I know, been collected into one small volume. In view of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nelson Mandela: A Life From Beginning to End

    by Henry Freeman ...
    A brief biography of an icon like Nelson Mandela is a difficult undertaking. This offering is ideal for someone, not from Africa, who would like to know what motivated a man to give his life to a cause that would see him spend the most productive years of his life in jail.Inside you will read about...✓ A boy in rural South Africa✓ Egoli...place of gold✓ The African National Congress and the birth ... Read more

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  • Johannesburg

    The Elusive Metropolis

    by AbdouMaliq Simone ...
    Series series a Public Culture Book
    Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have cast it as an emblem of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economic relations and segregationist policies, and a city that responds to but does not contribute to ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Thabo Mbeki I know

    Edited by Sifiso Ndlovu, Miranda Strydom ...
    The Thabo Mbeki I Know is a collection that celebrates one of South Africa’s most exceptional thought leaders. The contributors include those who first got to know Thabo Mbeki as a young man, in South Africa and in exile, and those who encountered him as a statesman and worked alongside him as an African leader.In The Thabo Mbeki I Know, these friends, comrades, statesmen, politicians and business ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD