wired - South Africa 1

A revealing account of how Israel’s booming arms industry and apartheid South Africa’s international isolation led to a secretive military partnership between two seemingly unlikely allies. Prior to……続きを見る

The Defense of Duffer’s Drift is one of the most important works ever written on small unit tactics and is required reading for junior officers in military organizations around the world. It was wri……続きを見る

Election campaigns, political events, and national celebration days in Malawi usually feature groups of women who dance and perform songs of praise for politicians and political parties. These livel……続きを見る

General Sir Redvers Buller V.C. was among the most popular generals of his age, born in 1839 he was commissioned into the 60th Rifles in and started a military career that would last 40 years. His p……続きを見る

Charles Wilson and his wife, Mabel Sarah had a small diamond claim in Klipdam when the Anglo-Boer War commenced in October 1899. The area was occupied by Boer Army soon after and eventually in Decem……続きを見る

Een oorlog, twee broers, een tragiese twis - die verskriklikste Afrikanerbroedertwis ooit. Meer as 'n honderd jaar ná die laaste skote in die Anglo-Boereoorlog geklap het, word genl. Christiaan de W……続きを見る

This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. A three-country case study was used to analyze the economic, political, and social impac……続きを見る

In Illegible Will Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black diasporic performance to examine the absence of black women's will from that archive. Young argues for that……続きを見る

In this searing and revealing account of cricket in post-apartheid South Africa, Ashwin Desai deftly tells a story of promise and despair, the story of a new pitch; a quick start full of hope, follo……続きを見る

An Empty Plate analyses the state of the South Africanagri-food system. Tracy Ledger demonstrates how this system is perpetuating poverty, threatening land reform, entrenching inequality and tearing……続きを見る

In this transnational account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black ……続きを見る

In 1852, Christian settlers in South Africa took inspiration from the Bible's Old Testament to enslave and attack the indigenous occupants of the land they had occupied. This book tells the true sto……続きを見る

The subject of race and identity is a burning issue which continues to occupy the attention not only of South Africans but also the wider residents of the continent of Africa and those who are Afric……続きを見る

This volume examines diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and South Africa from 1986 to 1990, when deadlock gave way to the first stages in the unwinding of apartheid. By the middle of 19……続きを見る

Why are all of the maps in the back of the Bible zoomed in so close that you can't tell that 99% of the stories take place in Africa and Arabia? Starting in Genesis, we are introduced to a utopian g……続きを見る

The Sands of Kalahari, first published in 1960, begins its gripping story with the crash-landing of a small plane carrying seven people in the harsh Kalahari desert. Their struggle to survive in the……続きを見る

A memoir from a Special Forces fighter about his experiences in the Rhodesian War and how combat has shaped his life. Andre Scheepers grew up on a farm in Rhodesia, learning about the bush from his ……続きを見る

Edward Wilson Landor's 'The Bushman Life in a New Country' is a riveting exploration of life in a new country through the eyes of a bushman, offering a unique perspective on the challenges and trium……続きを見る

For almost forty years, under the watchful eye of the apartheid regime, some three thousand South Africans participated in cultural and educational exchange with the United States. Exposure to Ameri……続きを見る

In this collection of case studies and stories from the field, South African scholars come together to trade stories on how to decolonise the university Shortly after the giant bronze statue of Ceci……続きを見る

The idea that the period of social turbulence in the nineteenth century was a consequence of the emergence of the powerful Zulu kingdom under Shaka has been written about extensively as a central ep……続きを見る

This book explores the social and economic development of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi over the course of the twentieth century. These three countries have long shared and interconnected pasts. All t……続きを見る

Five years after the death of Nelson Mandela, and 25 years after sharing the Nobel Peace Prize with him, Frederik de Klerk reflects on his political legacy in a revealing series of letters to his ol……続きを見る

Building on the work of economic historian Douglass North and Ugandan political scholar Mahmood Mamdani, Friedman argues that the difficulties besetting South African democracy are legacies of the p……続きを見る

1879: The Zulu War and The Battle of Isandlwana Fred Symons, a young farmer from Claridge, Pietermaritzburg is part of Lord Chelmsford's army marching to clash with the Zululand kingdom. Fred Symon'……続きを見る

Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His……続きを見る

In the 1970s, Southern Africa became the major locale for African filmmaking with an increasing use of the Kalahari Desert, Okavango Delta and Kruger Park area. This study examines the relationship ……続きを見る

"The most interesting book of its kind is Captain Donovan's 'With Wilson in Matabeleland.'" -Review of Reviews, 1895 "Will excite attention." - The Athenaeum 1894 "This is a story well told Of the h……続きを見る

When Dr David Livingstone stepped foot in what is now Malawi, he played his part in the "Struggle for Africa". A flood of missionaries and settlers would flock to this small, land-locked country in ……続きを見る

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……続きを見る