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  • Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africaby William Beinart; Saul Dubow

    Routledge 1995; US$ 41.95

    Beinart 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...

  • Imperial Networksby Alan Lester

    Taylor & Francis 2001; US$ 39.95

    Imperial 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...

  • The Fall of Apartheidby Robert Harvey

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 39.00

    This volume tells the story of how apartheid came into being, secured its ascendancy over the richest and most developed society in sub-Saharan Africa, and then collapsed. It illuminates not just the South African problems but also more general issues of conflict and problem solving. more...

  • Genetics, Mass Media and Identityby Tudor Parfitt

    Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 168.00

    Genetics as relayed by the media is perceived by laymen as being irreproachably objective 'hard science': its disinterested 'scientific' findings appear impressive and act as a catalyst for change. This book explores the effect of genetic research on the Lemba Judaising community of Southern Africa and the phenomenon of Israelite identity. more...

  • South Africa's Diverse Peoplesby Sally Frankental

    ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 55.00

    This authoritative work examines 500 years of interaction between the races in a country that during the apartheid era became a byword for racial disharmony. more...

  • Rethinking the Rise and Fall of Apartheidby Adrian Guelke

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 105.00

    Providing a much-needed antidote to recent revisionist attempts to 'rehabilitate' apartheid, this major new text by a leading authority offers a considered and substantive reassessment of the nature, endurance and significance of apartheid in South Africa as well as the reasons for its dramatic collapse. Paying particular attention to the international dimension as well as the domestic, the author assesses the impact of anti-apartheid protest, of changing attitudes of Western governments to the apartheid regime and the evolution of South African government policies to the outside world. more...

  • Race and Reconciliationby Daniel Herwitz

    University of Minnesota Press 2003; US$ 67.50

    Seeking the timeless through the timely, Daniel Herwitz brings the vast resources of the philosophical essay to bear on the new realities of post-apartheid South Africa?from racial identity to truth commissions, from architecture to film and television. A public intellectual?s reflections on public life, Herwitz?s essays question how the new South Africa has constructed its concepts of reconciliation and return. more...

  • A Commonwealth of Knowledgeby Saul Dubow

    Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 165.00

    This is the first full study of the relationship of knowledge to national identity formation in modern South Africa. It explores how the cultivation of knowledge served to support white political ascendancy and claims to nationhood. Elegantly written and wide ranging, the book addresses major themes in both South African and comparative imperial historiography. - ;A Commonwealth of Knowledge addresses the relationship between social and scientific thought, colonial identity, and political power in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. It hinges on the tension between colonial knowledge, conceived of as a universal, modernizing force, and its realization in the context of a society divided along complex ethnic and racial fault-lines.... more...

  • African Queenby Rachel Holmes

    Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 13.99

    Saartjie Baartman was twenty-one years old when she was taken from her native South Africa and shipped to London. Within weeks, the striking African beauty was the talk of the social season of 1810–hailed as “the Hottentot Venus” for her exquisite physique and suggestive semi-nude dance. As her fame spread to Paris, Saartjie became a lightning rod for late Georgian and Napoleonic attitudes toward sex and race, exploitation and colonialism, prurience and science. In African Queen, Rachel Holmes recounts the luminous, heartbreaking story of one woman’s journey from slavery to stardom. Born into a herding tribe known as the Eastern Cape Khoisan, Saartjie was barely out of her teens when she was orphaned and widowed by... more...

  • Money and Violenceby Erik Bahre

    BRILL 2007; US$ 58.00

    An ethnographic study that reveals how financial self-help groups (burial societies and credit groups) are islands of hope for Xhosa migrants living in the townships and squatter camps of Cape Town, South Africa. This work examines the urban poor's day-to-day struggles over money in post-apartheid South Africa. more...