History - General & World
History - General & World
A darker shade of pale : A memoir of apartheid South Africa
A Darker Shade of Pale is a moving account of Beryl’s family and community life in segregated South Africa - the injustices, humiliation and challenges and finally finding acceptance when she moved to Australia in the 1980s.
R 212,50
R 250,00
Ancient Greece: An Illustrated History
An authoritative account of political and military history, art, architecture and culture, fully illustrated throughout.
R 433,50
R 510,00
African Archaeology without frontiers : Papers from the 2014 PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress
Confronting national, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries, contributors to African Archaeology Without Frontiers argue against artificial limits and divisions created through the study of `ages' that in reality overlap and cannot and should not be understood in isolation.
R 355,30
R 418,00
An African Volk : The Apartheid Regime and Its Search for Survival
An African Volk explores how the apartheid state sought to maintain power as the world of white empire gave way to a new post-colonial environment that repudiated racial hierarchy.
R 1 955,00
R 2 300,00
Africa and World War II
This volume offers a fresh perspective on Africa's central role in the Allied victory in World War II. Its detailed case studies, from all parts of Africa, enable us to understand how African communities sustained the Allied war effort and how they were transformed in the process. Together, the chapters provide a continent-wide perspective.
R 484,21
A place to live : Red location and its history from 1903 to 2013
The book provides captivating insights into the rich tapestry of meaning that fashioned the Red Location into the township that it became, and the many stalwarts that contributed to its vibrant and interesting history.
R 352,75
R 415,00
A World of Letters : Reading Communities and Cultural Debates in Early Apartheid South Africa
A world of letters retrieves an important but largely forgotten history of readers, reading practices and cultural debates in early apartheid South Africa. Corinne Sandwith pursues this history in the ephemeral spaces of oppositional newspapers, literary magazines, debating societies and theatre groups.
R 187,00
R 220,00
A school of struggle
Durban's Medical School has made an indelible mark on South African history and society. The first medical school in South Africa to offer a full biomedical education to black students, it laid the foundation of the black medical profession. It offers insightful portraits of the School's pioneers.
R 230,00
African delights
African delights is a unique literary journey through some critical moments in South African history. The journey begins in Sophiatown of the 1950s, one of the most definitive periods in South African urban culture.
R 191,25
R 225,00
A century of postgraduate Anglo Boer war studies : Master's and doctoral studies completed at universities in South Africa, in English-speaking countries and on the European Continent 1908-2008
This study provides students, historians, and other academics and scholars, as well as other researchers and anyone interested in the history of the Anglo-Boer War, with as comprehensive a list as possible of all postgraduate studies completed on any conceivable aspect of the war.
R 246,50
R 290,00
Albert Luthuli
Much public historical mythology asserts that Chief Albert Luthuli, former President of the African National Congress (ANC), launched the armed struggle upon his return to South Africa after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
R 229,50
R 270,00
African Studies: Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires: The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth-Century Swazi State Series Number 31
This is the first full-length study of the political economy of one of the African states formed during the nineteenth-century Zulu revolution. It covers the evolution of the Swazi state and the dynamics of its stratified systems; its relations with the surrounding Boer societies; and its eventual dissolution.
R 660,00