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Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $25.99Original price $25.99 - Original price $25.99Original price $25.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of littl...
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A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An acutely nuanced and original study of a state-sanctioned mass murderer, A Human Being Died That Night explores what it means to be human—both ...
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I Write What I Like: Selected Writings / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." Like all of Steve Biko's writings, those words testify to th...
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Into the Heart of Darkness: Confessions of Apartheid's Assassins
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Jacques Pauw has been an investigative journalist for more than three decades. Before the phenomenal success of The President's Keepers, he spen...
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Johannesburg, South Africa: Travel and Tourism Guide
PaperbackOriginal price $31.00Original price $31.00 - Original price $31.00Original price $31.00Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Johannesburg, South Africa. Travel and Tourism Guide Commonly known as Jo'burg or Jozi, this rapidly changing city is the vibrant heart of South ...
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A History of South Africa, Fourth Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A fresh and penetrating exploration of South Africa’s history, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present“I did not ...
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The Boer War: London to Ladysmith via Pretoria and Ian Hamilton's March
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /On October 11th, 1899 long-simmering tensions between Britain and the Boer Republics - the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic - finally...
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South Africa: The rise and fall of apartheid
PaperbackOriginal price $42.95 - Original price $42.95Original price $42.95$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /This new edition of South Africa examines the history of South Africa from 1948 to the present, covering the economic background to racial segreg...
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Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in South Africa: The National Peace Accord, 1991-1994
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Examines the creation and implementation of South Africa's National Peace Accord and this key transitional phase in the country's history, and it...
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The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A “gripping and important” (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela’s protégé by a white supremacis...
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Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This book presents the narratives of Zimbabweans whose lives have been affected by the country's political, economic, and human rights crises. This...
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Reframing Africa? Reflections on Modernity and the Moving Image
PaperbackOriginal price $44.00 - Original price $44.00Original price $44.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /This book takes readers on a series of stimulating intellectual journeys from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era to explore notion...
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Race and Diplomacy in Zimbabwe
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The 'Rhodesian crisis' of the 1960s and 1970s, and the early-1980s crisis of independent Zimbabwe, can be understood against the background of Cold...
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Historical Archaeology in South Africa: Material Culture of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape
PaperbackOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /This volume documents the analysis of excavated historical archaeological collections at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa to provide a rich pict...
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Violence in Rural South Africa, 1880-1963
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Violence was endemic to rural South African society from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. But acts of violence were not in...
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Young Women Against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa's Liberation Struggle
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Provides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual vi...
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History Beyond Apartheid: New Approaches in South African Historiography
HardcoverOriginal price $140.00 - Original price $140.00Original price $140.00$162.99$162.99 - $162.99Current price $162.99| /This book brings leading historians of South Africa together to consider new methodological and theoretical approaches within the field.Product Det...
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The Lion in South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /"The latest authority on lions is Mr. F.C. Selous...being a modest man, he claims to have had only a trifling experience with lions as follows: 'I ...
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From Cape Town to Kruger: A Traveler's Guide to South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Embark on an extraordinary adventure through the breathtaking landscapes, vibrant cultures, and captivating history of South Africa with our compre...
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The Work of Repair: Capacity After Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 20...
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Alluring Opportunities: Tourism, Empire, and African Labor in Colonial Mozambique
HardcoverOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Alluring Opportunities examines the lives of African laborers in the tourism industry in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique and the social ascensi...
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An Age of Hubris: Colonialism, Christianity, and the Xhosa in the Nineteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $39.50 - Original price $39.50Original price $39.50$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /An Age of Hubris is the first comprehensive overview of the impact of missionary enterprise on the Xhosa chiefdoms of South Africa in the first hal...
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An Age of Hubris: Colonialism, Christianity, and the Xhosa in the Nineteenth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /An Age of Hubris is the first comprehensive overview of the impact of missionary enterprise on the Xhosa chiefdoms of South Africa in the first hal...
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The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction This "elegant" and "unfailingly empathetic" narrative (The New York Times) follows th...
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