South category: 6019 books
by Sol. T. Plaatje
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
A work of impassioned political propaganda, exposing the plight of black South Africans under the whites-only government'.
Sol Plaatje’sNative Life in South Africa, originally published in 1916, was first and foremost a response to the landmark Natives’ Land Act of 1913. It arose out of...
Dr Philip’s Empire
One Man’s Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Dr John Philip towered over nineteenth-century South African history, championing the rights of indigenous people against the growing power of white supremacy, but today he is largely forgotten or misremembered. From the time he arrived in South Africa as superintendent of the London Missionary Society...
The Great Silence
From Mushroom Valley to Delville Wood, South African Forces in World War One
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When war struck in 1914, it struck not just in Europe, but everywhere across the globe, including South Africa, whose troops saw action in five theatres. They fought one another on home soil, during a rebellion fuelled by old resentments; they fought the Germans in the deserts of South West Africa and...
Beyond the City
Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
During the last decade, the South American continent has seen a strong push for transnational integration, initiated by the former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who (with the endorsement of eleven other nations) spearheaded the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure...
by E.C. Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
The history of the western hemisphere begins rather with South America than with North America. Students of United States history are familiar with the life of Christopher Columbus and his finding of the New World. Although he pointed the way for European nations to found valuable colonies in North...
The Unwinding of Apartheid: UK-South African Relations, 1986-1990
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume XI
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
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 1986, the South African Government had succeeded in containing the township revolt, but its hesitant...
Five-Star Trails: South Carolina Upstate
Your Guide to the Area's Most Beautiful Hikes
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The South Carolina Upcountry is gaining more popularity and people visiting will need to know how to discover all it has to offer. Outdoor activities here abound and there are a good variety of trails for hikers of all levels. From waterfalls to amazing mountain views, each trail offers hikers an...
by Ben Box
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
South America is epic. Home to the world’s highest waterfall, the longest mountain range and the largest rainforest – this continent will baffle you with its enormity. While cities like Rio de Janeiro swing to the sounds of samba, locals jostle around market stalls in Cuzco and indigenous farmers...
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol.8 (of 8) (Illustrations)
South Africa and its Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Everyone who has followed the story of the War in South Africa from start to finish will assuredly have acquired a keen and lasting interest in the land which has been won by the expenditure of so much blood and treasure. Earnestly will he discuss in his mind all questions connected with the development...
Sitting Up with the Dead
A Storied Journey through the American South
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
For the first time in paperback, an acclaimed look at the American South through the lenses of its most acclaimed storytellers and their tales.
Rarely does a nonfiction work come along that is as original and refreshing as Sitting Up with the Dead. Here, take a ride with Pamela Petro as she...
Bring Me My Machine Gun
The Battle for the Soul of South Africa, from Mandela to Zuma
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Award-winning journalist Alec Russell was in South Africa to witness the fall of apartheid and the remarkable reconciliation of Nelson Mandela's rule; and returned in 2007-2008 to see Mandela's successor, Thabo Mbeki, fritter away the country's reputation. South Africa is now perched on a precipice,...
Sharpeville
An Apartheid Massacre and its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signalled the start...
Inside Apartheid
One Woman’s Struggle in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
In Inside Apartheid, South African-born Janet Levine recounts the horrors and struggles she faced against the minority white government’s brutal system of repression from a rare perspective—that of a white woman who worked within the system even as she fought to transform it.
With candor and...
Yours for the Union
Class and Community Struggles in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
*Yours for the Union *stands as a landmark history of the making of the black working class in South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it covers the crucial period of 1930–47, when South Africa's rapid industrialisation led to the dramatic growth of the working class, and uncontrolled...