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The Native Bills (1935) & Native Views on the Native Bills (1935) Book 8
ISBN: 9780869809136 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heaton Nicholls presents the case for the abolition of the Cape Native Franchise with logic based on the premises of segregation ideology. He is answered, point for point, by Jabavu, who exposes the fallacies in his argument and makes a case for retaining the right to vote.
Heaton Nicholls presents the case for the abolition of the Cape Native Franchise with logic based on the premises of segregation ideology. He is answe...
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Adulphe Delegorgue's Travels in Southern Africa v. 2
ISBN: 9780869809365 / Angielski / Miękka / 401 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gives a first-hand description of the conflict between the Boers and the British, at Port Natal, in 1842. After this, the author travels northwards to the Limpopo; and writes of birds and big game, and of peoples and customs.
Gives a first-hand description of the conflict between the Boers and the British, at Port Natal, in 1842. After this, the author travels northwards to...
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94,33 |
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Restless identities : Signatures of nationalism, Zulu ethnicity and history in the lives of Petros Lamula (c.1881-1948) and Lymon Maling (1889-c.1936)
ISBN: 9780869809570 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Petros Lamula and Lymon Maling were influential political figures in Natal and Zululand between 1910 and 1940. This text seeks to capture their complex social identities, without reducing them to ciphers of the larger historical processes.
Petros Lamula and Lymon Maling were influential political figures in Natal and Zululand between 1910 and 1940. This text seeks to capture their comple...
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153,99 |
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The James Stuart Archive of Recorded Oral Evidence Relating to the History of the Zulu and Neighbouring Peoples v. 5
ISBN: 9780869809587 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This multi-volume series is an indispensable research tool for scholars working on the history and ethnography of the Zulu kingdom and ne3ighbouring states. James Stuart was an official in the Natal colonial civil service in the 1890's and early years of the twentieth century. In meticulously recorded interviews with hundred or informants, the great majority of them Africans, he assembled a vast and unique collection of notes on the traditions and customs of the Zulu and neighbouring peoples. Volume 5 contains statements from another 40 of the informants whom Stuart interviewed in the first...
This multi-volume series is an indispensable research tool for scholars working on the history and ethnography of the Zulu kingdom and ne3ighbouring s...
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278,19 |
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In Memoriam : Roll of Honour Imperial Forces - Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902
ISBN: 9780869809686 / Angielski / Twarda / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covers over 25,000 people who died serving with the Imperial forces in the Anglo-Boer War. This book includes the details of the unit they were attached to, where and how they died, and where they are buried.
Covers over 25,000 people who died serving with the Imperial forces in the Anglo-Boer War. This book includes the details of the unit they were attach...
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496,76 |
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The Illustrated Guide to the Anglo-Zulu War
ISBN: 9780869809730 / Angielski / Twarda / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Illustrated Guide to the Anglo-Zulu War is a comprehensive, illustrated and expert guide to the famous clash in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. The book describes and explains the origins of the conflict, the Zulu, British and colonial military systems, the combatants' tactics and strategies, and the course of the campaign. There are definitive maps of military operations and the battles, diagrams of fortifications and additional pictorial material, all of which provide a dramatic and visual explication of the war. The aim is to lead the reader through the campaign...
The Illustrated Guide to the Anglo-Zulu War is a comprehensive, illustrated and expert guide to the famous clash in 1879 between the British Empire an...
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238,44 |
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Drum Decade-The 2nd Edition: Stories from the 1950's
ISBN: 9780869809853 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents the Drum Magazine which features stories of the 1950s, in which black writers pitted an urbane, ironic, tough city style - that of the jazz musician, the journalist, the tsotsi - against the obsessions of apartheid.
Presents the Drum Magazine which features stories of the 1950s, in which black writers pitted an urbane, ironic, tough city style - that of the jazz m...
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74,47 |
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The Great Escape of the Boer Pimpernel : Christiaan De Wet - the Making of a Legend
ISBN: 9780869809945 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christiaan De Wet, commander of the Boer forces in the Anglo-Boer War, had the ability to lead his burghers, many of them individualists, with a strong hand, subjecting them to his stringent discipline. He was also a masterful strategist who could anticipate the moves of his opponents. But it was his ability to evade the British forces in what became known as the "First De Wet Hunt" that contributed significantly to his legendary status. Lord Roberts, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in South Africa, believed that the capture of De Wet would lead to the end of the Anglo-Boer War. When...
Christiaan De Wet, commander of the Boer forces in the Anglo-Boer War, had the ability to lead his burghers, many of them individualists, with a stron...
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119,18 |
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The Atlas of the Later Zulu Wars 1883-1888
ISBN: 9780869809983 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Later Zulu Wars of the 1880s were a last-ditch resistance to colonialism combined with bitter civil war. The consequences proved more devastating for the Zulu people than the famous Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. They took place at a time of changing fighting methods and tactics for both the British and the Zulu; the last time the British Army ever went on campaign still wearing scarlet was in Zululand in 1888. This book explains the nature of the diverse Zulu, British and Boer military forces fighting in Zululand, and the ways in which the British and the Boers fostered and exploited divisions...
The Later Zulu Wars of the 1880s were a last-ditch resistance to colonialism combined with bitter civil war. The consequences proved more devastating ...
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238,44 |
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A History of Inequality in South Africa 1652-2002
ISBN: 9781869140229 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this major work - which took eight years to complete - Professor Sampie Terreblanche, a well-known Afrikaner academic of the University of Stellenbosch, provides an analysis of economic relations in South Africa. First, the book analyzes the work of numerous historians on inequality and exploitation in South Africa around a single theme: the systematic and progressive economic exploitation of indigenous people by settler groups. This synthesis is presented in a highly original, striking, and accessible way. Second, Terreblanche argues that, despite South Africa's successful transition to...
In this major work - which took eight years to complete - Professor Sampie Terreblanche, a well-known Afrikaner academic of the University of Stellenb...
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173,87 |
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Transition from below : Forging Trade Unionism Workplace Change in South Africa
ISBN: 9781869140298 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the militant struggle of black workers against the despotism and racism of white power in the workplace, and of their participation in the broader political struggle against apartheid; the triumphant democratic breakthrough which culminated in the election of an ANC government in 1994; and the workers' strategy for reconstruction in the workplace and in local politics. Von Holdt explores the chaos and ungovernability in workplace and community as activists endeavored to disrupt the order of apartheid, as well as the outlines of a new order that emerged from this turbulence....
This book analyzes the militant struggle of black workers against the despotism and racism of white power in the workplace, and of their participation...
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134,07 |
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Writing in Crisis : Ethics and History in Gordimer, Ndebele and Coetzee
ISBN: 9781869140441 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1980's, South African literary criticism was preoccupied with the issue of political responsibility and various aspects of literary texts were largely ignored by the dominant critical debates of the time. By focusing on the predicament of literary writing in times of historical turmoil, Writing in Crisis investigates three central apartheid-era texts that attempt to engage a cultural form and deviate from it at the same time. Helgesson argues that Fools and Other Stories by Njabulo Ndebele, A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer, and Life & Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee, each...
In the 1980's, South African literary criticism was preoccupied with the issue of political responsibility and various aspects of literary texts were ...
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114,21 |
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The Maphumulo Uprising : War, Law and Ritual in the Zulu Rebellion
ISBN: 9781869140489 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1906, the authorities in the colony of Natal put down, with great loss of life, an uprising that has become known as the Zulu or Bhambatha rebellion. Accounts have tended to concentrate on Bhambatha, the man who led the guerrilla war in the Nkandla forest, but this book shifts the focus to the Maphumulo area where two famous chiefs led their people in violent resistance to the colonial militia. This account also goes beyond the physical conflict. It examines the rituals that preceded it and the life and death struggle in the courts which followed as the colonial authorities sought to make...
In 1906, the authorities in the colony of Natal put down, with great loss of life, an uprising that has become known as the Zulu or Bhambatha rebellio...
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124,14 |
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Travelling Light
ISBN: 9781869140564 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Weinberg is one of South Africa's leading and best-known photographers. His latest book, Travelling Light, is published to coincide with an exhibition that reflects 25 years of Weinberg's photographic journey, from the 1970s to the present day. It begins in the streets of Jo'burg in the late 1970s and ends in the rural and desert landscapes of the new millennium. In his introduction, Weinberg reflects: "When I began taking photographs it was in the context of a land divided. I now live in a country ostensibly united. Politically at least, we have come full circle. These photographs...
Paul Weinberg is one of South Africa's leading and best-known photographers. His latest book, Travelling Light, is published to coincide with an exhib...
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198,70 |
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Caught Behind : Race and Politics in Springbok Cricket
ISBN: 9781869140595 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. South Africa's participation in international cricket has been bedeviled by racism and the political intervention of governments virtually from the beginning. This book is a compulsively readable account of the events and political machinations that led to South Africa's cricket isolation in the apartheid era and its ultimate readmission.
South Africa's participation in international cricket has been bedeviled by racism and the political intervention of governments virtually from the be...
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114,21 |
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Talk Left, Walk Right : South Africa's Frustrated Global Reforms
ISBN: 9781869140885 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thabo Mbeki - President of South Africa - has advocated unity with global justice movement activists. "They may act in ways you and I may not like and break windows in the street, but the message they communicate relates." This raises critical questions. Is the South African government genuinely opposed to what Mbeki calls 'global apartheid?' Are the reforms advocated by Pretoria succeeding, even on their own limited terms? This new edition of Talk Left, Walk Right answers both questions in the negative. With incomparable political cartoons, the book considers the dynamics of international...
Thabo Mbeki - President of South Africa - has advocated unity with global justice movement activists. "They may act in ways you and I may not like and...
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129,11 |
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Voices of Protest : Social Movements in Post-apartheid South Africa
ISBN: 9781869140892 / Angielski / Miękka / 437 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The socio-economic transformation of South Africa is necessary for the consolidation of its democracy. This can be fully realized only when poor people's voices are heard in the corridors of power. Voices of Protest documents the first post-apartheid initiatives of poor people to mobilize and organize themselves. The book analyzes social struggles and movements in a variety of arenas. It illuminates poor people's demands, leadership, organizational structure, and most importantly, their politics. The book also assesses the collective effect of South Africa's social movements on the country's...
The socio-economic transformation of South Africa is necessary for the consolidation of its democracy. This can be fully realized only when poor peopl...
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153,99 |
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States of Mind : Searching for Mental Health in Natal and Zululand, 1868-1918
ISBN: 9781869140984 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study of the history of mental illness and its cures in colonial and immediately post-Union Natal and Zululand (South Africa) investigates westernized treatments of insanity at the Natal Government Asylum, as well as less well-known routes back to health via African and Indian modes of healing. Author Julie Parle writes of the amandiki, bands of frenzied women who explained their illness as caused by possession by a male ancestor. She discusses frauds, medicines for hysteria and drunkenness, faith healers of different kinds, and suicide in all communities. Finally, she considers how...
This study of the history of mental illness and its cures in colonial and immediately post-Union Natal and Zululand (South Africa) investigates wester...
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153,99 |
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Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women? : Stories of the South African Transition
ISBN: 9781869141202 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women? explores the ways in which the imaginative reconstruction of post-apartheid South Africa as a 'rainbow nation' has been produced from images of women that dismember their bodies and disremember their historical presence. From Krotoa-Eva and Sarah Bartmann to Nongqawuse and Winnie Mandela, author Meg Samuelson tackles the figurations of some of the most controversial and significant women in the making of modern South Africa. Drawing on feminist, postcolonial, and post-structuralist theory, and close textual readings of literary and cultural texts...
Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women? explores the ways in which the imaginative reconstruction of post-apartheid South Africa as a 'rainbow nat...
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153,99 |
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A Nation without Guns? : The Story of Gun Free South Africa
ISBN: 9781869141356 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After successfully negotiating the political transition in South Africa, one of the greatest challenges that faced the new democracy was the proliferation of firearms and the high levels of violent crime associated with this. Gun deaths and injuries rocketed out of control. Ad le Kirsten tells the remarkable story of how Gun Free South Africa, a small NGO with few resources, mobilized to reduce the number of guns in circulation. Through innovative campaigning and media strategies, it quickly became a household name and the scourge of the pro-gun lobby. But the book tells more than this. It...
After successfully negotiating the political transition in South Africa, one of the greatest challenges that faced the new democracy was the prolifera...
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148,97 |
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