South Africa category: 561 books
Letters from the Horn of Africa 1923 – 1942
Sandy Curle, Soldier and Diplomat Extraordinary
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
After brief service in the Gordon Highlanders as part of the Army of Occupation of the Rhine post Great War, Sandy Curle sought more adventurous soldiering and in 1923 was seconded to the King’s African Rifles (KAR). Aged 23 he found himself in remotest Somaliland in sole charge and the only European...
Freedom for Nelson Mandela
The Release of Nelson Mandela after 27 Years of Imprisonment as Reported by Times Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Collected Times Media photographs and articles documenting the days prior, the day of, and the immediate reaction to the release of freedom fighter and the world's most famous prisoner. This collection documents one of the most significant days in South African history. Exclusive glimpses and photographs provide insight to how this momentous event.
by Peter Richard Dreyer
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Isacq is fiction based on the early life of the author's direct ancestor Johannes Augustinus Dreyer (1689–1759). Commencing with a long flashback from the Cape of Good Hope in 1738, it novelizes his adventures in the five years from 1708, when he was a student at the University of Rostock, to 1713,...
Transforming the Frontier
Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
International peace parks—transnational conservation areas established and managed by two or more countries—have become a popular way of protecting biodiversity while promoting international cooperation and regional development. In Transforming the Frontier, Bram Büscher shows how cross-border...
An African Volk
The Apartheid Regime and Its Search for Survival
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The demise of apartheid was one of the great achievements of postwar history, sought after and celebrated by a progressive global community. Looking at these events from the other side, An African Volk explores how the apartheid state strove to maintain power as the world of white empire gave way...
Unreasonable Histories
Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa—contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia—from the 1910s to the 1960s. Drawing...
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 David Birmingham
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
This history by celebrated Africanist David Birmingham begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteenth century the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural labor, first as privately owned...
Repainting the Walls of Lunda
Information Colonialism and Angolan Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Repainting the Walls of Lunda chronicles the publication and dissemination of an anthropology book, Paredes Pintadas da Lunda (Painted Walls of Lunda), which was published in Portuguese in 1953. The book featured illustrations of wall murals and sand drawings of the Chokwe peoples of northeastern Angola....
Women and Militant Wars
The politics of injury
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This book explores women’s militant activities in insurgent wars and seeks to understand what women ‘do’ in wars.
In International Relations, inter-state conflict, anti-state armed insurgency and armed militancy are essentially seen as wars where collective violence (against civilians...
Cetywayo and his White Neighbours
Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The writer on Colonial Affairs is naturally, to some extent, discouraged
by the knowledge that the subject is an unattractive one to a large
proportion of the reading public. It is difficult to get up anything
beyond a transient interest in the affairs of our Colonial dependencies;
indeed, I believe...
Making Freedom
Apartheid, Squatter Politics, and the Struggle for Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
In Making Freedom Anne-Maria Makhulu explores practices of squatting and illegal settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town during and immediately following the end of apartheid. Apartheid's paradoxical policies of prohibiting migrant Africans who worked in Cape Town from living permanently within the...