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Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Based on documents from a long-lost and unexplored colonial archive, Slavery by Any Other Name tells the story of how Portugal privatized part of...
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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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Violence and Solace: The Natal Civil War in Late-Apartheid South Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $39.50 - Original price $39.50Original price $39.50$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /The Natal Midlands in South Africa was ravaged by conflict in the 1980s and 1990s between supporters of the United Democratic Front and Inkatha. Th...
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The View across the River: Harriette Colenso and the Zulu Struggle against Imperialism
PaperbackOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /This narrative aims to show how after its conquest, the Zulu kingdom was destroyed by the imperial policies of divide and rule, and how the Colen...
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The Finger of God: Enoch Mgijima, the Israelites, and the Bulhoek Massacre in South Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /On the morning of May 24, 1921, a force of eight hundred white policemen and soldiers confronted an African prophet, Enoch Mgijima, and some thre...
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The Equality of Believers: Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa
HardcoverOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /From the beginning of the nineteenth century through to 1960, Protestant missionaries were the most important intermediaries between South Africa...
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One Love, Ghoema Beat: Inside the Cape Town Carnival
PaperbackOriginal price $26.50 - Original price $26.50Original price $26.50$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /One Love, Ghoema Beat: Inside the Cape Town Carnival takes readers behind the scenes of one of the world's least known and most colorful carnivals...
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Bound for Work: Labor, Mobility, and Colonial Rule in Central Mozambique, 1940-1965
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Diverging from the studies of southern African migrant labor that focus on particular workplaces and points of origin, Bound for Work looks at th...
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Art and Revolution: The Life and Death of Thami Mnyele, South African Artist / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Thami Mnyele's life spanned the era of apartheid. He was born the same year the National Party won office and came of age in a time (the 1960s) a...
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A World of Their Own: A History of South African Women's Education
PaperbackOriginal price $29.50 - Original price $29.50Original price $29.50$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The politics of black education has long been a key issue in southern African studies, but despite rich debates on the racial and class dimension...
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