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  • Reading Spaces in South Africa, 1850–1920s

    by Archie L. Dick ...
    Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
    Voluntary societies and government initiatives stimulated the growth of reading communities in South Africa in the second half of the nineteenth century. A system of Parliamentary grants to establish public libraries in country towns and villages nurtured a lively reading culture. A condition was that the library should be open free-of-charge to the general public. This became one more reading ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures

    by Archie L. Dick ...
    The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study reveals resistance strategies in the reading and writing practices of South Africans; strategies that have been hidden until now for political reasons relating to the country's liberation struggles.By ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Print Culture in Southern Africa

    Edited by Caroline Davis, Archie Dick, Elizabeth le Roux, Dennis Walder ...
    Series series Southern African Studies
    Print Culture in Southern Africa is concerned with the institutions and processes informing textual production, circulation and consumption in the region, over a broad historical period from the late 18th century to the present day. The book is organised around three closely related themes. Firstly, it presents original research into the formation of reading publics and the impact of reading ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

    by Andrew van der Vlies, Leon de Kock, Archie L. Dick, Natasha Distiller, Patrick Denman Flanery ...
    An explanation of the unique role of the book and book collecting in South Africa due to the apartheidThis book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives- historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD

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    The aim of this book is to a launch a polemic for the freedom of the press against all of the attempts to police, defile and sanitise journalism today. Once the media reported the news. Now it makes it. From the phone-hacking scandal to rows about press regulation, super-injunctions, leaks, libel and privacy laws, the power of the Murdoch empire, and the future of the BBC, the media has become the ... Read more

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  • Aspects of Colonial Tanzania History

    by Lawrence E.Y. Mbogoni ...
    Aspects of Colonial Tanzanian History is a collection of essays that examines the lives and experiences of both colonizers and the colonized during colonial rule in what is today known as Tanzania. Dr. Mbogoni examines a range of topics hitherto unexplored by scholars of Tanzania history, namely: excessive alcohol consumption (the sundowners); adultery and violence among the colonial officials; ... Read more

    $156.19 CAD

  • Liberal Democracy

    by Philip Tether ...
    LIBERAL DEMOCRACY. This is the fourth in a series of texts on government and politics designed for students and the general reader (see author's other publications or a full list of titles). All the books interlink and cross-reference but are designed to stand alone. This fourth text continues the series with a detailed exploration of liberal democracy. A democracy of course is 'government of the ... Read more

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  • Five Ideas to Fight For

    How Our Freedom is Under Threat and Why it Matters

    by Anthony Lester ...
    ― Human Rights― Equality― Free Speech― Privacy― The Rule of LawThese five ideas are vitally important to the way of life we enjoy today. The battle to establish them in law was long and difficult, and Anthony Lester was at the heart of the thirty-year campaign that resulted in the Human Rights Act, as well as the struggle for race and gender equality that culminated in the Equality Act of 2010 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • In the Name of the Mother

    Reflections on Writers and Empire

    by Ngugi wa Thiong'o ...
    Renowned worldwide, as novelist and dramatist, Ngugi wa Thiongo's contributions to the body of critical writing on African literature, politics and society have been highly significant. His best known critical work is Decolonising the Mind, which since publication in 1986 has profoundly influenced other writers, critics, scholars and students.These latest essays reflect Ngugi's continuing ... Read more

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  • Nyerere

    The Early Years

    by Thomas Molony ...
    Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1922-1999), the first President of Tanzania, was a man whose political life was uniquely and inextricably bound into the history of the nation he created. Yet, though 'Baba wa Taifa', Father of the Nation, there is still no adequate biography.This book presents the first truly rounded portrait of Nyerere's early life, from his birth in 1922 until his graduation from ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Brit-Myth

    Who do the British think they are?

    by Chris Rojek ...
    Series series FOCI
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  • Africans in Britain

    Edited by David Killingray ...
    This collection of essays looks at the history of African people in Britain mainly over the past 200 years ... Read more

    $147.02 CAD