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Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to ……続きを見る

Read the book that inspired the Academy Award and Golden Globe winning 2009 film INVICTUS featuring Morgan Freeman and Matt Daymon, directed by Clint Eastwood. Beginning in a jail cell and ending in……続きを見る

Hierdie werk dra ek met graagte op aan die stoere pioniers van die Krokodilriviervallei, wat met soveel moeite en opoffering hul deel bygedra het om hierdie omgewing vir hulle nageslag woonbaar na t……続きを見る

South Africa, 1902 – Canadian Lt. Harry Lanyard, British Army, leads a mounted patrol of hard-bitten Colonial troopers into the veld to recover $15 million worth of gold bullion hidden by Transvaal ……続きを見る

The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a comm……続きを見る

The most important historical and journalistic portrait to date of a nation whose destiny will determine the fate of a continent. A brutally honest exposé, After Mandela provides a sobering portrait……続きを見る

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Vir die grootste gedeelte van sy bewind is die Nasionale Party-regering gesteun en onderhou deur die direkte betrokkenheid van sy veiligheidsmagte. Gewone landsburgers het geen idee gehad waar voor ……続きを見る

This guide contains interesting information on: -Table Mountain -Robben Island -Museums -The Castle -Company Gardens -Cape Town Suburbs -The Victoria and Alfred Waterfront -Kirstenbosch -Groot Const……続きを見る

"The African Colony" was written by John Buchan in London (1903) when he was Editor of The Spectator magazine about his previous time spent as private secretary to Alfred Milner, who was then the Hi……続きを見る

The Affects of Colonialism in Africa analyzes the invasion of the colonists into Africa during the 19th and 20th Centuries. Some of the most difficult times for Africa were during the establishment ……続きを見る

The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction (1903) is a history of South Africa told from John Buchan's personal viewpoint: "I have tried in the main to state as clearly as I could the outstan……続きを見る

For much of its time in power, the National Party government was shored up by the direct involvement of its security forces. Ordinary citizens had no idea that their taxes were being used to fund un……続きを見る

The sequel to the bestselling Of Warriors, Lovers and Prophets, this is a collection of more fascinating, colourful - and mostly unknown - historical tales, all meticulously researched and written i……続きを見る

Biography of Foy Short, a pioneer evangelist who lived in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe from 1922 through 1995. The book explores not only the traditional hazards he faced as a "missionary" (wild ……続きを見る

When Mary Llewellyn’s husband is killed in a battle between Welsh and English miners in poverty-stricken Wales, she resolves to forge a new life in the South African sun with her children. However, ……続きを見る

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 beca……続きを見る

Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as something ‘absent’ or ‘distant.’ Victims of historical injustice, however, in contra……続きを見る

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

Es’kia Mphahlele’s seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africaーavailable for the first time in Penguin Classics Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es’kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean o……続きを見る

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 th……続きを見る

"This incredible true story reads like the wildest fiction."ーBooklist In the summer of 1783 the grandees of the East India Company were horrified to learn that one of their finest ships, the 741-to……続きを見る

While most people remember Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for his 'Sherlock Holmes' stories, he actually wanted more to be a journalistic and historical writer. This is one of his works in that vein, docume……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

**'A definitive account of one of the most dramatic encounters in the whole history of Empire . . . [a] tour de force' The Daily Mail 'Ian Knight manages to expose many of the Victorian myths while ……続きを見る

Becoming Zimbabwe is the first comprehensive history of Zimbabwe, spanning the years from 850 to 2008. In 1997, the then Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Morgan Tsvangirai……続きを見る

“My planne is reeds agtermekaar. Ek gaan van Kingsberg ’n onvervreembare erfenis maak tot ná die vierde geslag. So sal ek sorg dat niemand hier afbreek wat ek opgebou het nie. Niemand sal hier iets ……続きを見る

The Farmerfield Mission explores the history of a residential Christian community in South Africa established for Africans in 1838 by Methodist missionaries, destroyed in 1962 by the apartheid gover……続きを見る

Writing more than one hundred years ago, African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois speculated that the great dilemma of the twentieth century would be the problem of "the color line." Nowhere was the ……続きを見る

Die Afrikanervolk se geskiedenis is 'n roemryke geskiedenis. Dit is net jammer ons kinders leer nie meer van die geskiedenis nie. Hierdie boek is 'n poging om die Boerevolk se geskiedenis in een sto……続きを見る