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The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE AN AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTABLE BOOK IN NONFICTION "[A] tremendous new book." —The Bosto...
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More Than Just a Game: Soccer vs. Apartheid: The Most Important Soccer Story Ever Told
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Timed perfectly for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Chuck Korr and Marvin Close's More Than Just a Game tells the timeless true story of how ...
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Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the pa...
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The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Journalist Peter Godwin has covered wars. As a soldier, he's fought them. But nothing prepared him for the surreal mix of desperation and hope he...
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Not Either an Experimental Doll: The Separate Worlds of Three South African Women / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /" . . . remarkable . . . " --Foreign Affairs" . . . illuminates the workings of institutionalized racism through the correspondence of three Sout...
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Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race
HardcoverOriginal price $38.95Original price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /The compelling story of a trek across an exotic land–and the sinister consequencesIt was an SS mission led by two complex individuals–one who was...
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A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold's Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as n...
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Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /One of the most famous first-hand accounts of the Second Boer war, written by a soldier who served on the Boer commandos from the very first to t...
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The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals
PaperbackOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Between 1453 and 1526 Muslims founded three major states in the Mediterranean, Iran and South Asia: respectively the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal...
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Discover South Africa: The Ultimate Travel Guide for Exploring South Africa Like A Local
PaperbackOriginal price $9.97 - Original price $9.97Original price $9.97$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Are you planning a trip to South Africa? Do you want to be well prepared for your big adventure? Now you can be properly informed and ready to e...
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Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /"Splendid…[Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight." —Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review ...
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Mumbai Fables
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A sweeping cultural history of India’s largest cityA place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just ...
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India: A Wounded Civilization
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a masterpiece of astonishing insight and candor about a society traumatized by centuries of foreign con...
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Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Ye...
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The Mirror At Midnight: A South African Journey
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that bl...
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The Old Way: A Story of the First People
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Elizabeth Marshall Thomas was nineteen when her father took his family to live among the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Fifty years later, after a life...
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Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /One of the most famous first-hand accounts of the Second Boer war, written by a soldier who served on the Boer commandos from the very first to t...
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Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, show...
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Anglo American and the Rise of Modern South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /It is well known that the Anglo American Group of companies is a major force in the economic, political, and social life of South Africa, and tha...
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The Collapse of Apartheid and the Dawn of Democracy in South Africa, 1993
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This game situates students in the Multiparty Negotiating Process taking place at the World Trade Center in Kempton Park in 1993. South Africa is...
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Fighting and Writing: The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In Fighting and Writing Luise White brings the force of her historical insight to bear on the many war memoirs published by white soldiers who fo...
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The Lost World of the Kalahari
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An account of the author’s grueling, but ultimately successful, journey in 1957, through Africa’s remote, primitive Kalahari Desert, in search of...
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Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive ...
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The Honourable Company
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into the grandest society of merchants in the univ...
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