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  • The Shona and Ndebele of Southern Rhodesia

    Southern Africa Part IV

    de Hilda Kuper, A. J. B. Hughes, J. van Velsen ...
    Series Libro 4 - Ethnographic Survey of Africa
    Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples.Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows:Physical ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Land is Ours

    Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Diamonds, Gold, and War

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Zulu Wars - A Brief History

    A Brief History, #2

    de Andrew Knight ...
    Series Libro 2 - A Brief History
    The Anglo – Zulu wars, a clash between the might of the British Empire with the African Zulu Kingdom, began in 1879.In 1874, Sir Henry Bartle Frere was appointed High Commissioner for Southern Africa. His mission was to bring the various African kingdoms, tribal areas, and Boer Republics together under British rule, modelled after the policy which brought the various states within Canada together ... Leer más

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  • Of Warriors, Lovers and Prophets

    Unusual Stories from South Africa's Past

    de Max du Preez ...
    South African history will never be the same again … Shunning the predictable, Max du Preez has put on his investigative journalist’s cap and examined our past from a fresh perspective. The result is a collection of extraordinary and mostly unknown stories, all meticulously researched and written in an engaging and lively style. Instead of regurgitating the story of Jan van Riebeeck’s arrival at ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Understanding Africa Book 1

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Begging to Be Black

    de Ms Antjie Krog ...
    In 1992, a gang leader was shot dead by an ANC member in Kroonstad. The murder weapon was then hidden on Antjie Krog’s stoep. In Begging to Be Black, Krog begins by exploring her position in this controversial case. From there the book ranges widely in scope, both in time - reaching back to the days of Basotho king Moshoeshoe - and in space - as we follow Krog’s experiences as a research fellow in ... Leer más

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  • A Century of Wrong

    de 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. ... Leer más

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  • The Industrial Revolution

    de Arnold Toynbee ...
    The subject of these lectures is the Industrial and Agrarian Revolution at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. Including chapters on England in 1760, the mercantile system and Adam Smith, the growth of pauperism and the future of the working classes. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and ... Leer más

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  • Tafelberg Short: A chief is a chief by the grace of his people

    Once we had leaders

    de Max du Preez ...
    Series series Tafelberg Kort/Tafelberg Short
    South Africa suffers a crisis of leadership. Yet history offers many an example of spectacular, authentically African leaders, untouched by white influence. Max du Preez has unearthed new data on visionary leaders Maqoma, Mohlomi and especially Moshoeshoe, who founded a peaceful nation through persuasion and prosperity. Moshoeshoe, embracing diversity and new technologies, knew that nothing ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • The Dead will Arise

    Nongqawuse and the great Xhosa cattle killing 1856-7

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Chronicles Of Tshabalala Clan In Mhlongamvula & Its Exodus

    de 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". ... Leer más

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