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The New Radicals
A Generational Memoir of the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
From the political ashes of the late 1960s, new and radical initiatives grew with surprising speed in the first half of the 1970s. The New Radicals: A Generational Memoir of the 1970s tells the story of a generation of South African activists who embraced and developed forms of opposition politics...
Richmond
Living in the Shadow of Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
A true story, this gripping narrative reads like a political thriller as it describes one South African town's year of terror in the early days of the new post-apartheid government. Sifiso Nkabinde, the regional leader of the African National Congress (ANC) in the town of Richmond, KwaZulu Natal,...
by Lieut.-Gen. The Earl of Dundonald
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This fascinating autobiography charts the military career of Lieut.-Gen. The Earl of Dundonald, a Victorian general of much renown as he himself writes:
“The MS. of these pages was written at various periods. It describes many matters in connection with my life in the Army from Cornet of...
by Alan P Landau
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Fleeing persecution in Poland in 1879, a young Jewish family settled in England where two brothers begin work in a cigarette factory. After falling upon hard times they migrate to Ireland where the eldest brother is briefly accused of murder. Enduring poverty and scant support from their father after...
Southern African Liberation Struggles
New Local, Regional and Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Probing beyond the heroic portrayals of armed struggles and nationalist resistance, this collection of essays illustrates the intertwined histories of Southern African liberation struggles and those of regional and international solidarity movements, beginning in the 1960s through the establishment...
Seaside Spectres
North Carolina's Haunted Hundred Coastal
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Daniel W. Barefoot’s colleagues in the North Carolina General Assembly call him their “resident historian.” Now, he’s their resident folklorist, too. North Carolina’s Haunted Hundred, Barefoot’s three-volume series, is a sampler of the diverse supernatural history of the Tar Heel State....
A Living Man from Africa
Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
by Martial Moutcho
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Galapagos Islands History, and Tourism. People, Culture, Governance, Economy. A Book on Galapagos for travel and tourism. The Galápagos Archipelago was discovered by accident in 1535, when Tomás de Berlanga, the first Bishop of Panama, drifted off course while sailing from Panama to Peru. The bishop...
Narrative Threads
Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The Inka Empire stretched over much of the length and breadth of the South American Andes, encompassed elaborately planned cities linked by a complex network of roads and messengers, and created astonishing works of architecture and artistry and a compelling mythology—all without the aid of a graphic...
For a Proper Home
Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960-2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
From 1967 to 1973, a period that culminated in the socialist project of Salvador Allende, nearly 400,000 low-income Chileans illegally seized parcels of land on the outskirts of Santiago. Remarkably, today almost all of these individuals live in homes with property titles. As Edward Murphy shows,...
Patagonia
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Forming a vast triangle at the southern tip of South America, Patagonia is a landscape of barren steppes, soaring peaks, and fierce wind, inspiring generations of travelers and artists. From the empty plans to the crashing seas, from the giant dinosaur fossils to the massive glacial sculptures, Chris...
German Buenos Aires, 1900–1933
Social Change and Cultural Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
This study of the German community of early twentieth-century Buenos Aires is a major contribution to the literature on Argentine history and on the New World immigrant experience. Beginning with the first wave of immigration in the late nineteenth century and continuing to the outbreak of World War...
by Margaret Hebblethwaite
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Bradt's Paraguay was the first stand-alone guide to Paraguay published outside of Paraguay itself and still remains the most comprehensive guide available, covering the whole country from the best-known sights to off-the-beaten track attractions well beyond the tourist trail, plus a cross-border excursion...
by H. Rider Haggard
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Haggard lived for years among the British Empire’s colonial officials in South Africa. Also published as A History of the Transvaal, this 1899 work of nonfiction describes the inhabitants, their laws and customs, and the clash of powers. History as only Haggard could tell it.