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This book presents key historical scholarship published in Safundi from 1999 to 2024, tracing South Africa’s past through approaches of comparative history, transnational history, and visual history……続きを見る

Frederik van Zyl Slabbert is al beskryf as die beste landsleier wat Suid-Afrika nooit gehad het nie. As ’n uitstaande akademikus het hy in 1974 van beroep verander toe hy in dié jaar se parlementêre……続きを見る

This book provides a highly detailed account of the history, organisation, uniforms and insignia of South African Special Forces from their origins up to the early 90s. Units such as the 44 Parachut……続きを見る

Winner of IASPM Book Prize, given by IASPM, 2023 Winner of the Bruno Nettl Prize, given by the Society for Ethnomusicology, 2023 Joint-Winner of the Ruth Stone Prize (with Jessica Perrea), given by ……続きを見る

The Afrikaners in Crisis: The Struggle for Identity and Relevance in Modern South Africa by William Jones delves into the complex and evolving role of the Afrikaner community in post-apartheid South……続きを見る

Biotraffic explores the complex world of biological resource trade. It takes readers inside the contemporary Ciskei region of South Africa, a once-notorious apartheid “homeland” turned extractive hu……続きを見る

That summer afternoon, I had no way of knowing the book would radically alter my existence. Yet that proved to be the case. A wind that had begun to blow from a faraway place a long time ago had fin……続きを見る

How the South African War transformed nationalist politics across Ireland’s global diaspora In 1899, the British Empire embarked on a deeply controversial war against two small Boer Republics in Sou……続きを見る

Journey into The Heart of Africa & Explore Over 2000 Years of History, People, Countries, Myths, Facts & More From the birthplace of civilisation to modern times, African History tells the most exqu……続きを見る

Although it lasted only thirty years, German colonial rule dramatically transformed South West Africa. The colonial government not only committed the first genocide of the twentieth century against ……続きを見る

Luke Fredericks is born into apartheid South Africa. His uncaring parents dump him on his gran. His blissful childhood among Zulu-speaking farm children is disrupted when be goes to school and has t……続きを見る

Step into a world where the echoes of Africa's past reverberate through the ages, where the land's vibrant spirit thrums with the pulse of centuries-old traditions and the resilience of a continent ……続きを見る

Malaria on the Move explores the socioeconomic aspects of endemic malaria in the southeastern lowveld of Zimbabwe. The book provides a historical analysis of malaria control and eradication programs……続きを見る

Step into the heart of one of Africa’s most formidable and misunderstood kingdoms in Zulu Kingdom History Unveiled: The Untold Story of Southern Africa’s Warrior Nation. This definitive chronicle sh……続きを見る

The historical development of the relationship between Muslims and Politics in South Africa indicates that Islam has played an important role in the political sphere since the dawn of the apartheid ……続きを見る

The interest, awareness and importance of human rights has continued to dominate public discourse. This is partly because human rights help us to recognise and respect our shared rights and responsi……続きを見る

Le 28 avril 1990, trois mois après la libération de Nelson Mandela, Michael Lapsley perdait ses mains et un oeil dans un attentat au colis piégé au Zimbabwe. Aumônier de l’ANC en exil, il payait ain……続きを見る

To understand the history and the economic conditions of South Africa, one must first know something of its physical structure. The subject may seem dry, and those readers who do not care for it may……続きを見る

Nelson Mandela is well-known throughout the world as a heroic leader who symbolizes freedom and moral authority. He is fixed in the public mind as the world's elder statesman -- the gray-haired man ……続きを見る

"South Africa's tragic apartheid history is vividly recounted . . . [Lapierre] is adept at infusing it with drama aplenty." ー Los Angeles Times In 1652 a small group of Dutch farmers landed on the ……続きを見る

In Dreams for Lesotho: Independence, Foreign Assistance, and Development, John Aerni-Flessner studies the post-independence emergence of Lesotho as an example of the uneven ways in which people expe……続きを見る

Nostalgia after Apartheid offers a unique approach to understanding how attempted post-apartheid reforms have failed rural Black South Africans, and how this failure has led to a nostalgia for the v……続きを見る

In his new book, the eminent anthropologist Wyatt MacGaffey provides an ethnographically enriched history of Dagbon from the fifteenth century to the present, setting that history in the context of ……続きを見る

Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: How did societies first coalesce from the small foraging communities that had r……続きを見る

Since its initial publication, The Civilizationsof Africa has established itself as the most authoritative text available on early African history. Addressing the glaring lack of works concentrating……続きを見る

The Politics of the Near offers a novel approach to social unrest in post-apartheid South Africa. Keeping the noise of demonstrations, barricades, and clashes with the police at a distance, this eth……続きを見る

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 pu……続きを見る

Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world: intensifying inequality alongside “wageless life,” p……続きを見る

High Stakes, High Hopes tracks the building of urban theorizing in a decade-long urban research and teaching partnership in Cape Town, South Africa. An argument for collaborative urbanism, this book……続きを見る

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 r……続きを見る