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Marikana: Voices from South Africa's Mining Massacre
ISBN: 9780821420713 / Angielski / Miękka / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Marikana Massacre of August 16, 2012, was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of apartheid. Those killed were mineworkers in support of a pay raise. Througha series of interviews conducted with workers who survived the attack, this account documents and examines the controversial shootingsin great detail, beginning with a valuable history of the events leading up to the killing of workers, and including eyewitness accounts of the violence and interviews with family members of those who perished.
While the official Farlam... The Marikana Massacre of August 16, 2012, was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of ...
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Marikana: Voices from South Africa's Mining Massacre
ISBN: 9780821420775 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Marikana Massacre of August 16, 2012, was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of apartheid. Those killed were mineworkers in support of a pay raise. Througha series of interviews conducted with workers who survived the attack, this account documents and examines the controversial shootingsin great detail, beginning with a valuable history of the events leading up to the killing of workers, and including eyewitness accounts of the violence and interviews with family members of those who perished.
While the official Farlam... The Marikana Massacre of August 16, 2012, was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of ...
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328,15 |
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Oxford Bookworms Factfiles: Nelson Mandela: Level 4: 1400-Word Vocabulary
ISBN: 9780194233965 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Features topics such as environmental issues, historical facts, and culture.
Full-color photographs, introductions, glossaries, and exercises enhance student reading and learning. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words. Features topics such as environmental issues, historical facts, and culture.
Full-color photographs, introductions, glossaries, and exercises enha... |
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65,65 |
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The Diamond Ring: Business, Politics, and Precious Stones in South Africa, 1867-1947
ISBN: 9780198217756 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a history of the production and marketing of diamonds from the period of the "rush" to Kimberley and the rise of de Beers until the formation of the central Selling Organization by South African producers and London and South African merchants. Based on a wide variety of original sources from public and mining company archives, it is a study of both the politics and business of a South African monopoly which became an international cartel.
This is a history of the production and marketing of diamonds from the period of the "rush" to Kimberley and the rise of de Beers until the formation ...
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887,89 |
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Biko Lives!: Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko
ISBN: 9780230606494 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection looks at the on-going significance of Black Consciousness, situating it in a global frame, examining the legacy of Steve Biko, the current state of post-apartheid South African politics, and the culture and history of the anti-apartheid movements.
This collection looks at the on-going significance of Black Consciousness, situating it in a global frame, examining the legacy of Steve Biko, the cur...
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201,24 |
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Zulu Rising: The Epic Story of iSandlwana and Rorke's Drift
ISBN: 9780330445931 / Angielski / Miękka / 746 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The battle of Isandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonization of South Africa. In one bloody daymore than800 British troops, 500 of their allies, and at least 2,000 Zulus were killed in a staggering defeat for the British empire. The consequences of the battle echoed brutally across the following decades as Britain took ruthless revenge on the Zulu people. In "Zulu Rising" Ian Knight shows that the brutality of the battle was the result of an inevitable clash between two aggressive warrior traditions. For the first time he gives full...
The battle of Isandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonization of South Africa. In one bloody d...
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82,50 |
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The Cambridge History of South Africa
ISBN: 9780521517942 / Angielski / Twarda / 467 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reflecting on South Africa's achievement of majority rule, this book takes a critical and searching look at the country's past. It presents South Africa's past in an objective, clear, and refreshing manner. With chapters contributed by ten of the best historians of the country, the book elaborately weaves together new data, interpretations, and perspectives on the South African past, from the Early Iron Age to the eve of the mineral revolution on the Rand. Its findings incorporate new sources, methods, and concepts, for example providing new data on the relations between Africans and colonial...
Reflecting on South Africa's achievement of majority rule, this book takes a critical and searching look at the country's past. It presents South Afri...
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604,85 |
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The Cambridge History of South Africa
ISBN: 9780521869836 / Angielski / Twarda / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book surveys South African history from the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late nineteenth century to the first democratic elections in 1994. Written by many of the leading historians of the country, it pulls together four decades of scholarship to present a detailed overview of South Africa during the twentieth century. It covers political, economic, social, and intellectual developments and their interconnections in a clear and objective manner. This book, the second of two volumes, represents an important reassessment of all the major historical events, developments,...
This book surveys South African history from the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late nineteenth century to the first democratic electio...
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716,22 |
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The Transvaal Rebellion: The First Boer War, 1880-1881
ISBN: 9780582772618 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to Rudyard Kipling, The Boer Wars taught the British no end of a lesson. This book tells the untold story of the Boer Wars - the disastrous British campaign of the First Boer War and how its outcome influenced the nature of the second Boer War and thus the future of the whole of South Africa.
According to Rudyard Kipling, The Boer Wars taught the British no end of a lesson. This book tells the untold story of the Boer Wars - the disastrous ...
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200,76 |
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Mugabe and the White African
ISBN: 9780745955469 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An intimate account of one family's astonishing bravery in the face of brutality, as well as perhaps the outside world's only real glimpse of what it is like to live inside the terror ofMugabe's ZimbabweBen Freeth has an extraordinary story to tell. Like that of many white farmers, his family's land was "reclaimed" by Mugabe's government for redistributionbut Ben's family fought back. Appealing to international law, they instigated a suit against Mugabe's government in the SADC, the Southern African equivalent of NATO. The case was deferred time and again while Mugabe's men applied...
An intimate account of one family's astonishing bravery in the face of brutality, as well as perhaps the outside world's only real glimpse of what ...
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48,93 |
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Historical Dictionary of Namibia, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780810853980 / Angielski / Twarda / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On March 21, 1990, Sam Nujoma was sworn in as the first president of independent Namibia. This ceremony marked the end of a struggle that lasted more than two decades and a period of colonialism that lasted more than a century. Finally, after decades long wars over grazing in the 19th century, genocidal colonial suppression by Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, repressive apartheid racialism throughout the 20th century, and a prolonged armed liberation struggle, Namibians had the chance to choose their own leaders, develop a democratic political process in a free society, and to...
On March 21, 1990, Sam Nujoma was sworn in as the first president of independent Namibia. This ceremony marked the end of a struggle that lasted more ...
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773,84 |
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Historical Dictionary of Lesotho, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780810867956 / Angielski / Twarda / 654 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lesotho is rather different from most other African countries. For starters, it is a kingdom, which preserves a traditional hierarchy and customs, and its population consists of one fairly homogenous ethnic group, although admittedly there are differences and occasional rifts within it. Then, it is a landlocked country, completely surrounded by South Africa on which is depends heavily. Economically, it has not been doing particularly well, this partly because the country is so poorly endowed by nature, and its people often eke out a living abroad. Politically, there have been ups and downs,...
Lesotho is rather different from most other African countries. For starters, it is a kingdom, which preserves a traditional hierarchy and customs, and...
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940,36 |
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Tigers in Africa: Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope
ISBN: 9780813921297 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A characteristically unconventional and engaging work, Carmel Schrire's Tigers in Africa: Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope interweaves such diverse themes as colonial slavery and apartheid, human and carnivore evolution, and science and romance to show how we create the past and understand the present. Schrire recounts the significance of the palaeontological findings of Raymond Dart, Robert Ardrey, and Glynn Isaac addressing a famous dispute about carnivore evolution that flourished in the heyday of apartheid. She sets pioneering exploration of the globe against... A characteristically unconventional and engaging work, Carmel Schrire's Tigers in Africa: Stalking the Past at the Cape of Good Hope interweaves su... |
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63,62 |
![Claim to the Country: The Archive of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd [With DVD] Pippa Skotnes 9780821417782 0](/9780821417782_claim_to_the_country_the_archive_of_wilhelm_bleek_and_lucy_lloyd_with_dvd.jpg "Claim to the Country: The Archive of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd [With DVD]") |
Claim to the Country: The Archive of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd [With DVD]
ISBN: 9780821417782 / Angielski / Twarda / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
A Library Journal Editor s Pick In the 1870s, facing cultural extinction and the deathof their language, several San men and women told theirstories to two pioneering colonial scholars at the Cape, Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd. The narratives of these San(or Bushmen) were of the land, the rain, the history of the firstpeople, and the origin of the moon and stars. These narrativeswere faithfully recorded and translated by Bleek and Lloyd, creatingan archive of more than 13,000 pages including drawings, notebooks, maps, and photographs. Now... 2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
A Library Journal Editor s Pick In the 1870s, facing cultural extinction and the deathof their language... |
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367,33 |
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Steve Biko
ISBN: 9780821420256 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Steve Biko inspired a generation of black South Africans to claim their true identity and refuse to be a part of their own oppression. Through his example, he demonstrated fearlessness and self-esteem, and he led a black student movement countrywide that challenged and thwarted the culture of fear perpetuated by the apartheid regime. He paid the highest price with his life. The brutal circumstances of his death shocked the world and helped isolate his oppressors. Steve Biko inspired a generation of black South Africans to claim their true identity and refuse to be a part of their own oppression. Through his ... |
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77,28 |
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Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis
ISBN: 9780822342847 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have cast it as an emblem of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economic relations and segregationist policies, and a city that responds to but does not contribute to modernity on the global scale. Complicating and contesting such characterizations, the contributors to this collection reassess classic theories of metropolitan modernity as they explore the...
Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannes...
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156,72 |
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London Recruits : The Secret War Against Apartheid
ISBN: 9780850366556 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of the antiapartheid movement brings up images of boycotts and public campaigns in the UK, but another story went on behind the scenes, in secret. This is the story of the foreign volunteers and their activities in South Africa, how they acted in defiance of the apartheid government and its police on the instructions of the African National Congress (ANC). From the transportation of weapons to the passage of ANC fighters into South Africa, this account describes the many risks taken by the volunteers--many of whom were young communists, Trotskyists, or independent socialists who...
The history of the antiapartheid movement brings up images of boycotts and public campaigns in the UK, but another story went on behind the scenes, in...
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86,32 |
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Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa
ISBN: 9781107013612 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clifton Crais explores the relationship between colonial conquest and the making of South Africa's rural poor.
Clifton Crais explores the relationship between colonial conquest and the making of South Africa's rural poor.
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368,21 |
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Memory, Narrative and Forgiveness: Perspectives on the Unfinished Journeys of the Past
ISBN: 9781443801584 / Angielski / Twarda / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United Nations' declaration of 2009 as the International Year of Reconciliation is testimony to the growing use of historical commissions as instruments of reconciliation in post-conflict societies. Since the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has had a profound impact on international efforts to deal with the aftermath of mass violence and societal conflict, this is an appropriate time for scholars to debate and reflect on the work of the TRC and the wide-ranging scholarship it has inspired across disciplines. With a foreword by Harvard Law Professor Martha Minow,...
The United Nations' declaration of 2009 as the International Year of Reconciliation is testimony to the growing use of historical commissions as instr...
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257,72 |
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The Boer War: London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria and Ian Hamilton's March
ISBN: 9781472520821 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On October 11th,1899 long-simmering tensions between Britain and the Boer Republics - the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic - finally erupted into the conflict that would become known as the Second Boer War. Two days after the first shots were fired, a young writer by the name of Winston Churchill set out for South Africa to cover the conflict for the Morning Post. The Boer War brings together the two collections of despatches that Churchill published on the conflict. London to Ladysmith recounts the future Prime Minister's arrival in South Africa and... On October 11th,1899 long-simmering tensions between Britain and the Boer Republics - the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic - finally er... |
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128,84 |
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