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  • South African Battles

    par Timothy Couzens ...
    South African Battles describes 36 battles spread over five centuries. These are not the well-trodden battlefields of standard histories, but generally lesser-known ones. Some were of critical importance, while some were infinitely curious. Who, for instance, has heard of the battles of Nakob, Middelpos, Mome Gorge or Mushroom Valley? Who knows about the four black women that Bartolomeu Dias ... En savoir plus

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  • South Africa: History in an Hour

    par Anthony Holmes ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.With the passing of Nelson Mandela, ‘the father of the nation’, comes the end of an era, and the moment to look back on his remarkable saving, and remaking, of South Africa. After years of oppression and racial inequality, concentrated violence and apartheid, Mandela led the country to unite ‘for the freedom of us all’ as the country’s first ... En savoir plus

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  • My Traitor's Heart

    A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience

    par Rian Malan ...
    An Afrikaner crime reporter returns home to face the evil and complex legacy of South African apartheid in " a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage" (Michael Kerr).Rian Malan's classic work of reportage, My Traitor's Heart is at once beautiful, horrifying, and profound in ways that earned him comparisons to Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuściński, and inspired the London Times to call him "South ... En savoir plus

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  • A Rainbow in the Night

    The Tumultuous Birth of South Africa

    "South Africa's tragic apartheid history is vividly recounted . . . [Lapierre] is adept at infusing it with drama aplenty." — Los Angeles TimesIn 1652 a small group of Dutch farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa. Sent by the powerful Dutch India Company, their mission was simply to grow vegetables and supply ships rounding the cape. The colonists, however, were convinced by their strict ... En savoir plus

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  • What if there were no whites in South Africa?

    par Ferial Haffajee ...
    In What if there were no whites in South Africa? Ferial Haffajee examines South Africa’s history and present in the light of a provocative question that yields some thought-provoking discussion and analysis. From round-table discussions with influential South Africans, to research, personal thoughts and powerful anecdotes, Ferial takes the reader through the rocky terrain of race rage in our ... En savoir plus

    $9.19 CAD

  • The Mirror at Midnight

    A South African Journey

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Unlikely Secret Agent

    par Ronnie Kasrils ...
    Winner of South Africa’s top literary prize, the Alan Paton Award, The UnlikelySecret Agent tells the thrilling true story of one woman’s struggle against theapartheid system. It is 1963. South Africa is in crisis and the white state isunder siege. One August 19th, the dreaded Security Police descendedon Griggs bookstore in downtown Durban and arrest Eleanor, the white daughterof the manager. They ... En savoir plus

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  • The Complete Concise History of the Slave Trade

    This book is written mainly from my experience since my arrival in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s. I came to the UK before I came in contact with any Afro American or Caribbean. In Nigeria I know some people whose parents originally returned to Nigeria from Brazil and Cuba. The names of these great people are household names in Nigeria and particularly in Lagos. The more I stay in the UK ... En savoir plus

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  • From Boer War to World War

    Tactical Reform of the British Army, 1902–1914

    par Spencer Jones ...
    Collections series Campaigns and Commanders Series
    The British Expeditionary Force at the start of World War I was tiny by the standards of the other belligerent powers. Yet, when deployed to France in 1914, it prevailed against the German army because of its professionalism and tactical skill, strengths developed through hard lessons learned a dozen years earlier. In October 1899, the British went to war against the South African Boer republics ... En savoir plus

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  • Field Gun Jack Versus the Boers

    The Royal Navy in South Africa, 1899–1900

    War broke out in 1899 between the British and South African settlers of Dutch descent, the Boers, or Afrikaners as they are usually called today. Despite previous clashes, the British seriously underestimated their opponents. Although dressed in battered civilian clothes and made up entirely of volunteers, Boer troops were all mounted on horses and had very up-to-date German rifles.An even more ... En savoir plus

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  • Down Second Avenue

    Es’kia Mphahlele’s seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa—available for the first time in Penguin ClassicsNominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es’kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African writing. Down Second Avenue is a landmark book that describes Mphahlele’s experience growing up in segregated South Africa. Vivid, graceful, and ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Honorary White

    Acclaimed author E. R. Braithwaite ( To Sir, With Love) chronicles the brutality, oppression, and courage he witnessed as a black man granted "Honorary White" status during a six-week visit to apartheid South AfricaAs a black man living in a white-dominated world, author E. R. Braithwaite was painfully aware of the multitude of injustices suffered by people of color and he wrote powerfully and ... En savoir plus

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