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Long Walk to Freedomby Nelson Mandela
Little, Brown and Company 2008; US$ 9.99Read by Danny Glover, with an introduction by Kofi Annan. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights... more...
Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africaby William Beinart; Saul Dubow
Routledge 1995; US$ 41.95Beinart and Dubow's selection of some of the most important essays on racial segregation and apartheid in South Africa provides an unparallelled introduction to this contentious and absorbing subject. Incorporates the 1994 election. more...
Tripolitaniaby David J. Mattingly
Routledge 1995; US$ 165.00Drawing on recent excavation and field surveys, the author reinterprets many aspects of the settlement history of this marginal arid zone that was once made prosperous. more...
Skeletons on the Zaharaby Dean King
Little, Brown 2004; US$ 9.99While there have been numerous historical adventure narratives published, this is the first major work to take place in the greatest desert of all. King retraced parts of Captain James Riley's three-month trek through the desert, going for days consuming only camel urine and locusts. The book is rich with the sort of detail one could only get from being on the scene, in the heart of the desert. more...
The New South Africaby Guy Arnold
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 145.00The orderly transfer of power from the white minority to the black majority in South Africa was something of a political miracle. The tasks facing the new government of Thabo Mbeki are formidable. If Mbeki can succeed in giving his country and the African continent the necessary lead the rewards will be tremendous both for South Africa itself and for the continent. If there is to be an African renaissance the lead must come from South Africa. more...
South African Truth Commissionby Dr Kenneth Christie
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 140.00Over the last thirty years, many political transitions from authoritarian regimes and dictatorial political systems have been accompanied by Truth Commissions. Since 1974 there have been over twenty of these Commissions established in countries as diverse as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, the Philippines and Germany, among others. Perhaps the most important Truth Commission of our time is the South African one which also seeks to act as a mechanism for reconciliation in a divided society. The South African conflict was extremely long and violent; its victims suffered traumatic experiences and, in part, one of the Commission's functions is to allow their story to be told. This book tries to examine the Truth Commission... more...
Theory, Change and Southern Africa's Futureby Prof Peter Vale; Larry A. Swatuk; Bertil Oden
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 165.00As dramatic changes unfold throughout the world, and the new millennium begins, many in South Africa have begun to ask 'what next'? The scale and pace of change have led to a feeling of powerlessness. How to cope with 'globalization', 'regionalization', a depleting ozone layer, new diseases, rampant militarization, let alone unseen structures of influence and oppression like race, class and gender? While there is no shortage of theoretical models on offer many feel that they are inadequate for the case of Southern Africa. In this book, scholars of both international relations and Southern Africa present a wide variety of thoughts on the future of the reign and the place of theory in helping us to understand the bewildering array of events characterizing... more...
Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870by Robert Ross; David Anderson; Carolyn Brown; Christopher Clapham; Michael Gomez; Patrick Manning; David Robinson
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 28.00This compelling example of the new cultural history of South Africa argues that cultural factors were related to high political developments in the colonial Cape. It describes changes in social identity accompanying the transition from Dutch to British overrule, and the development of white racism and of ideologies of resistance. more...
An African Athensby Philippe-Joseph Salazar
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2002; US$ 108.00This work is not a history of the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa; instead it is an analysis of a new ecology of rhetoric. Its aim is to arrive at a general view of issues as they have taken shape in the particular South Africa experience. more...
Imperial Networksby Alan Lester
Taylor & Francis 2001; US$ 39.95Imperial Networks reveals how British colonialism of the Xhosa to the east of the nineteenth century Cape colony was informed by, and itself informed, imperial ideas and activities, in Britain and in other colonies. more...









