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The Plebeian Republic
The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820–1850
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
Combining social and political history, The Plebeian Republic challenges well-established interpretations of state making, rural society, and caudillo politics during the early years of Peru’s republic. Cecilia Méndez presents the first in-depth reconstruction and analysis of the Huanta rebellion...
Mandela
A Film and Historical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
This official companion book to the epic major feature film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom retraces the life of Nelson Mandela, weaving together his own words and historic humanitarian efforts with cinematic narrative and exclusive behind-the-scenes content. It's a movie tie-in unlike any other: a...
General Smuts
South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Jan Smuts was one of the key figures behind the creation of the League of Nations; Wilson was inspired by his ideas, including the mandates scheme. He pleaded for a magnanimous peace, warning that the treaty of Versailles would lead to another war.
Argentina
A Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
In the early 20th century, Argentina possessed one of the world's most prosperous economies, yet since then Argentina has suffered a series of boom-and-bust cycles that have seen it fall well below its regional neighbours such as Chile. At the same time, despite the lack of significant ethnic or linguistic...
The Loss of El Dorado
A Colonial History
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold. In this extraordinary and often gripping book, V. S. Naipaul–himself a native of Trinidad–shows how that delusion drew a small island into...
Armies of the War of the Triple Alliance 1864–70
Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay & Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
The War of the Triple Alliance is the largest single conflict in the history of South America. Drawing Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay into conflict the war was characterized by extraordinarily high casualty rates, and was to shape the future of an entire continent – depopulating Paraguay...
The Class of '79
Three Students Who Risked Their Lives to Destroy Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Out of the class of 1979 at Rhodes University one of the quietest girls in the class, Marion Sparg joined the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) Umkhonto we Sizwe, trained in exile in Angola, and was eventually convicted of bombing three police stations. The Cape Times journalist Zubeida...
The Ghetto in Global History
1500 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
The Ghetto in Global History explores the stubborn tenacity of ‘the ghetto’ over time. As a concept, policy, and experience, the ghetto has served to maintain social, religious, and racial hierarchies over the past five centuries. Transnational in scope, this book allows readers to draw thought-provoking...
by Emmanuel Ugono
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Corruption has wreaked havoc in Africa more than HIV/AIDS, cancer, and malaria combined. The war and hunger in East Africa, the political unrest in North Africa, the drug issues in South Africa, and the rise in militancy and terrorism in West Africa are all children of corruption. The threat is not...
Great Battles: The Battle of Isandlwana
The Great Zulu Victory of 1879
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Penguin Specials are designed to fill a gap. Written to be read over a long commute or a short journey, they are original and exclusively in digital form. This is Saul David's compelling examination of one of history's greatest battles.
On 22nd January, at Isandlwana in Zululand, South-East...
by Dave Tippetts
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
This is an autobiographical account of 23 years in the British South African Police Force including experiences as a Border Control Inspector and later officer that as an officer commanding Anti-Terrorist operations in the Matabeleland Province of Rhodesia.The book also covers the day to day...
by Stephen Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2005
"This incredible true story reads like the wildest fiction."—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-ton Grosvenor, had been lost on the wild and unexplored coast of southeast Africa. Astonishingly,...
by James H. Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African healer and vodun priest, James Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-century...
Long Road from Quito
Transforming Health Care in Rural Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2019
Long Road from Quito presents a fascinating portrait of David Gaus, an unlikely trailblazer with deep ties to the University of Notre Dame and an even more compelling postgraduate life. Gaus is co-founder, with his mentor Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., of Andean Health and Development (AHD), an...