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Guide To Sieges Of South Africa - Anglo-Boer Wars; Anglo-Zulu War; Frontier Wars; Basuto Wars (Paperback): Nicki Von Der Heyde Guide To Sieges Of South Africa - Anglo-Boer Wars; Anglo-Zulu War; Frontier Wars; Basuto Wars (Paperback)
Nicki Von Der Heyde 4
R250 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Save R19 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A companion volume to the highly successful Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa, this features the pivotal sieges that characterised the Cape Frontier, Anglo-Zulu, Basotho and Anglo-Boer wars in one volume.

Accounts of 17 sieges over the last two centuries explore in detail the historical context in which they occurred, the day-to-day military actions that sustained the investments and the conditions both soldiers and civilians faced while defending their territory against a hostile force. The siege descriptions are animated by maps and a variety of information boxes and human-interest stories, gleaned from diaries, letters and eye-witness accounts, while longer features focus on the practical aspects of siege warfare, such as artillery, medicine, food, and the psychological effects of besiegement. The book also provides practical information for visitors who wish to explore these historical sites.

A fascinating read that will appeal to anyone interested in the volatile history of the country – armchair historians and travellers alike.

Spying And The Crown - The Secret Relationship Between British Intelligence And The Royals (Paperback): Richard J. Aldrich,... Spying And The Crown - The Secret Relationship Between British Intelligence And The Royals (Paperback)
Richard J. Aldrich, Rory Cormac
R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For the first time, Spying and the Crown uncovers the remarkable relationship between the Royal Family and the intelligence community, from the reign of Queen Victoria to the death of Princess Diana.

In an enthralling narrative, Richard J. Aldrich and Rory Cormac show how the British secret services grew out of persistent attempts to assassinate Victoria and then operated on a private and informal basis, drawing on close personal relationships between senior spies, the aristocracy, and the monarchy.

Based on original research and new evidence, Spying and the Crown presents the British monarchy in an entirely new light and reveals how far their majesties still call the shots in a hidden world.

Previously published as The Secret Royals.

The Great Trek Uncut - Escape From British Rule: The Boer Exodus From The Cape Colony, 1836 (Paperback): Robin Binckes The Great Trek Uncut - Escape From British Rule: The Boer Exodus From The Cape Colony, 1836 (Paperback)
Robin Binckes
R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

In the early planning stages of Freedom Park, Robin Binckes participated as a member of the history sub-committee. The amount of debate and argument, much of it heated, astounded him. Practically every event discussed was interpreted from diametrically differing viewpoints. One of the most controversial topics was the Great Trek, the 1836 Boer exodus from the Cape Colony.

Traditionally writers on the subject have covered the event from a perspective not only of 'white history' but predominantly of 'Afrikaner history'. It has always been seen as 'an Afrikaner event'. It was anything but. As the Great Trek and the events leading up to it involved every section of the population - Zulu, Sotho, Ndebele, Xhosa, Khoisan, Khoikhoi, Coloured, British, English-speaking South African and Boer - it is time to portray the trek in that light, in the context of a unbiased, modern South Africa.

Like most history the dots are all connected; it is impossible to separate the Great Trek from events which took place as far back as the Portuguese explorers because those early events shaped the backdrop to the causes of the Great Trek. Most writers have specialized in the trek itself whereas Binckes has adopted a broader approach that studies the impact of the earlier white incursions and migrations - Portuguese, Dutch, French and British - on southern Africa, to create a better understanding of the trek and its causes. Drawing heavily on eyewitness accounts wherever possible, he has consolidated these with the perspectives of leading historians, the final product being an objective and comprehensive record of one of the seminal events in South African history.

This book shows that the Afrikaner was, is, and always will be, an important player in South African society, but it shows him as part of a bigger picture. The author distances himself from the noble characters stereotyped for the past two centuries and portrays them in their true light: wonderful, courageous people with human feelings, strengths and failings.

The Politics Of Housing In (Post) Colonial Africa - Accommodating Workers And Urban Residents (Hardcover): Kirsten Ruther,... The Politics Of Housing In (Post) Colonial Africa - Accommodating Workers And Urban Residents (Hardcover)
Kirsten Ruther, Martina Barker-Ciganikova, Daniela Waldburger, Carl-Philipp Bodenstein
R300 R277 Discovery Miles 2 770 Save R23 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Housing matters, no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays on housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate how and why housing is much more than an everyday practice.

The politics of housing unfold in disparate dimensions of time, space and agency. Depending on context, they acquire diverse, often ambivalent, meanings. Housing can be a promise, an unfulfilled dream, a tool of self- and class-assertion, a negotiation process, or a means to achieve other ends. This volume analyzes housing in its multifacetedness, be it a lens to offer insights into complex processes that shape societies; be it a tool of empire to exercise control over private relations of inhabitants; or be it a means to create good, obedient and productive citizens.

Contributions to this volume range from the field of history, to architecture and urban planning, African studies, linguistics, and literature. The individual case studies home in on specific aspects and dimensions of housing and seek to bring them into dialogue with each other. By doing so, the volume aims to add to the debate on studying urban practices and their significance for current social change.

Published This Day - Marketing Books in Victorian England (Hardcover): Fred Nesta Published This Day - Marketing Books in Victorian England (Hardcover)
Fred Nesta
R3,029 Discovery Miles 30 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Union Made - Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago (Hardcover): Heath W. Carter Union Made - Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago (Hardcover)
Heath W. Carter
R1,253 Discovery Miles 12 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Union Made, Heath W. Carter advances a bold new interpretation of the origins of American Social Christianity. While historians have often attributed the rise of the Social Gospel to middle-class ministers, seminary professors, and social reformers, this book places working people at the very center of the story. The major characters-blacksmiths, glove makers, teamsters, printers, and the like-have been mostly forgotten, but as Carter convincingly argues, their collective contribution to American Social Christianity was no less significant than that of Walter Rauschenbusch or Jane Addams. Leading readers into the thick of late-19th-century Chicago's tumultuous history, Carter shows that countless working-class believers participated in the heated debates over the implications of Christianity for industrializing society, often with as much fervor as they did in other contests over wages and the length of the workday. Throughout the Gilded Age the city's trade unionists, socialists, and anarchists advanced theological critiques of laissez faire capitalism and protested "scab ministers" who cozied up to the business elite. Their criticisms compounded church leaders' anxieties about losing the poor, such that by the turn-of-the-century many leading Christians were arguing that the only way to salvage hopes of a Christian America was for the churches to soften their position on "the labor question." As denomination after denomination did just that, it became apparent that the Social Gospel was, indeed, ascendant-from below.

Revisit The Old Mill - Its Creation Defined Texas - Limited Publisher's Edition (Hardcover): W. Leon Smith Revisit The Old Mill - Its Creation Defined Texas - Limited Publisher's Edition (Hardcover)
W. Leon Smith
R701 Discovery Miles 7 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Room for Diplomacy - The History of Britain's Diplomatic Buildings 1800-2000 (Hardcover): Mark Bertram Room for Diplomacy - The History of Britain's Diplomatic Buildings 1800-2000 (Hardcover)
Mark Bertram
R1,689 Discovery Miles 16 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Creating a Scottish Church - Catholicism, Gender and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Scotland (Hardcover): S Karly Kehoe Creating a Scottish Church - Catholicism, Gender and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Scotland (Hardcover)
S Karly Kehoe
R2,342 Discovery Miles 23 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Creating a Scottish Church considers Catholicism's transition from an underground and isolated church to a multi-faceted institution that existed on a national scale. By challenging the dominant notion of Scotland as a Presbyterian nation, this study represents a radical departure from traditional perceptions. Included in this journey through nineteenth-century industrial urbanisation are the roles of women as well as the effect of Irish migration that initiated a reappraisal of the Church's position in Scottish culture and society. In taking a more critical look at gender and ethnicity, Kehoe investigates the myriad ways in which Scotland's Catholic population enhanced their experiences of community life and acquired a sense of belonging in a rapidly evolving and modernising nation. Introducing previously unseen material from private collections and archives, Kehoe also considers how the development of church-run social welfare services for the Catholic population helped to support the construction of a civil society and national identity that was distinctively Scottish. The book's primary focus on gender, ethnicity and religiosity introduces a deeper understanding of religion and culture in modern Britain, thus providing a significant contribution to existing historiography.

The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume 3 - France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone (January 1797 to... The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume 3 - France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone (January 1797 to November 1798) (Hardcover, New)
T.W. Moody, R.B. McDowell, C. J. Woods
R1,554 Discovery Miles 15 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98), barrister, United Irishman, agent of the Catholic Committee and later an officer in the French revolutionary army, is intended to comprehend all his writings and largely to supersede the two-volume Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone. ..written by himself that was edited by his son William, and published at Washington in 1826. It consists mainly of Tone's correspondence, diaries, autobiography, pamphlets, public addresses, and miscellaneous memoranda (both personal and public); it is based on the original MSS if extant or the most reliable printed sources.
Tone's participation in Irish politics in the early 1790s and his presence on the periphery of the ruling circle in revolutionary France from February 1796 to September 1798 would be sufficient to make his writings a major historical source. The literary quality of his writings, diaries, and autobiography enhances their importance. The unique quality of Tone's writings is that they are the production of a gifted and convivial young Irishman who moved widely in intellectual and political circles.
This volume - France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly, and the Death of Tone - completes the edition, following the last part of Tone's life, until his death following the abortive Irish uprising of 1798. It includes addenda, corrigenda, an iconography, a bibliography, and a complete index to all three volumes.

The Chicago Haymarket Affair: A Guide to a Labor Rights Milestone (Paperback, p>  </P>   ed.): Joseph Anthony Rulli The Chicago Haymarket Affair: A Guide to a Labor Rights Milestone (Paperback, p> </P> ed.)
Joseph Anthony Rulli
R534 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Victorians - An Age in Retrospect (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed): John Gardiner Victorians - An Age in Retrospect (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
John Gardiner
R2,688 Discovery Miles 26 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Who were the Victorians? Were they self-confident imperialists secure in the virtues of the home, and ruled by the values of authority, duty, religion and respectability? Or were they self-doubting and hypocritical prudes whose family life was authoritarian and loveless? Ever since Lytton Strachey mocked Florence Nightingale and General Gordon in Eminent Victorians, the reputation of the Victorians, and of what they stood for, has been the subject of vigorous debate.
John Gardiner provides a fascinating guide to the changing reputation of the Victorians during the 20th century. Different social, political, and aesthetic values, two world wars, youth culture, nostalgia, new historical trends and the heritage industry have all affected the way we see the age and its men and women. The second half of the book shows how radically biographical accounts have changed over the last 100 years, exemplified by four archetypical Victorians: Charles Dickens, W.E. Gladstone, Oscar Wilde, and Queen Victoria herself.

Edexcel A Level History, Paper 3: The making of modern China 1860-1997 Student Book + ActiveBook (Paperback): Larry Auton-Leaf Edexcel A Level History, Paper 3: The making of modern China 1860-1997 Student Book + ActiveBook (Paperback)
Larry Auton-Leaf 1
R880 Discovery Miles 8 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book: covers the essential content in the new specifications in a rigorous and engaging way, using detailed narrative, sources, timelines, key words, helpful activities and extension material helps develop conceptual understanding of areas such as evidence, interpretations, causation and change, through targeted activities provides assessment support for A level with sample answers, sources, practice questions and guidance to help you tackle the new-style exam questions. It also comes with three years' access to ActiveBook, an online, digital version of your textbook to help you personalise your learning as you go through the course - perfect for revision.

London Mob - Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed): Robert Shoemaker London Mob - Violence and Disorder in Eighteenth-Century England (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
Robert Shoemaker
R1,858 Discovery Miles 18 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

By 1700 London was the largest city in the world, with over 500,000 inhabitants. Very weakly policed, its streets saw regular outbreaks of rioting by a mob easily stirred by economic grievances, politics or religion. If the mob vented its anger more often on property than people, eighteenth-century Londoners frequently came to blows over personal disputes in a society where men and women were quick to defend their honour. Slanging matches easily turned to fisticuffs and slights on honour were avenged in duels. In this world, where the detection and prosecution of crime was the part of the business of the citizen, punishment, whether by the pillory, whipping at a cart's tail or hanging at Tyburn, was public and endorsed by crowds. The Mob draws a fascinating portrait of the public life of the modern world's first great city.

Don Pacifico - The Acceptable Face of Gunboat Diplomacy (Paperback, New): Derek Taylor Don Pacifico - The Acceptable Face of Gunboat Diplomacy (Paperback, New)
Derek Taylor
R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The house of Don Pacifico, president of the Jewish community in Athens, was looted by a mob in April 1847. The riot was government-inspired and the courts were crooked. There was little chance of getting the large compensation Pacifico claimed until Palmerston, the British Foreign Secretary, became involved in a totally justifiable piece of gunboat diplomacy. The author has unearthed a mass of information which finally shows Pacifico to be a victim of prejudice rather than a conman, and has shed new light on a fascinating episode of 19th-century European history.

The End of an Elite - The French Bishops and the Coming of the Revolution 1786-1790 (Hardcover): Nigel Aston The End of an Elite - The French Bishops and the Coming of the Revolution 1786-1790 (Hardcover)
Nigel Aston
R1,746 Discovery Miles 17 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The End of an Elite is the first scholarly study in English of the bishops of the French church at the outbreak of the French Revolution. The 130 members of the episcopate formed an elite within an elite, the First Estate of France. Nigel Aston explores the role of the episcopate in national and provincial politics in the last years of the ancien regime. He traces the policies and patronage of episcopal ministers such as Lomienie de Brienne and J.-M. Champion de Cice, who were as much politicians as pastors, and examines their relationships with their fellow bishops. Dr Aston emphasizes the leading role of the bishops in the Assemblies of Notables and offers a fresh interpretation of clerical elections to the Estates-General of 1789. This is an intensively researched and immensely readable account, which will be invaluable to all historians of late eighteenth-century France.

Cultural Revolutions - The Politics of Everyday Life in Britain, North America and France (Hardcover): Leora Auslander Cultural Revolutions - The Politics of Everyday Life in Britain, North America and France (Hardcover)
Leora Auslander
R3,213 Discovery Miles 32 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The revolutions in the England, North America, and France ushered in the modern political age. Cultural Revolutions analyzes the place of material culture, ritual, and everyday life during these revolutions, providing a fresh and engaging interpretation of the strategies used to transform people from monarchists into republicans.The author shows how, faced with the challenge of persuading large populations to alter their previous convictions and loyalties, revolutionaries in all three countries turned to the power of aesthetics. From the banning of dancing in Cromwell's England, to the 'homespun' clothing of Revolutionary America, to France's new calendar and naming systems, Auslander assesses how daily habits and tastes were altered in the interests of political change.

Greys' Ghosts - Men of the Scots Greys at Waterloo 1815 (Hardcover): Stuart Mellor Greys' Ghosts - Men of the Scots Greys at Waterloo 1815 (Hardcover)
Stuart Mellor
R1,078 Discovery Miles 10 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Gettysburg Address - Perspectives on Lincoln's Greatest Speech (Hardcover): Sean Conant The Gettysburg Address - Perspectives on Lincoln's Greatest Speech (Hardcover)
Sean Conant
R2,499 Discovery Miles 24 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

It is the most famous speech Lincoln ever gave, and one of the most important orations in the history of the nation. Delivered on November 19, 1863, among the freshly dug graves of the Union dead, the Gettysburg Address defined the central meaning of the Civil War and gave cause for the nation's incredible suffering. The poetic language and moral sentiment inspired listeners at the time, and have continued to resonate powerfully with groups and individuals up to the present day. What gives this speech its enduring significance? This collection of essays, from some of the best-known scholars in the field, answers that question. Placing the Address in complete historical and cultural context and approaching it from a number of fresh perspectives, the volume first identifies how Lincoln was influenced by great thinkers on his own path toward literary and oratory genius. Among others, Nicholas P. Cole draws parallels between the Address and classical texts of Antiquity and John Stauffer considers Lincoln's knowledge of the King James Bible and Shakespeare. The second half of the collection then examines the many ways in which the Gettysburg Address has been interpreted, perceived, and utilized in the past 150 years. Since 1863, African Americans, immigrants, women, gay rights activists, and international figures have invoked the speech's language and righteous sentiments on their respective paths toward freedom and equality. Essays include Louis P. Masur on the role the Address played in eventual emancipation; Jean H. Baker on the speech's importance to the women's rights movement; and Don H. Doyle on the Address's international legacy. Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg in a defining moment for America, but as the essays in this collection attest, his message is universal and timeless. This work brings together the foremost experts in the field to illuminate the many ways in which that message continues to endure.

Shays' Settlement in Vermont - A Story of Revolt and Archaeology (Paperback): Stephen D Butz Shays' Settlement in Vermont - A Story of Revolt and Archaeology (Paperback)
Stephen D Butz
R575 R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Jesuit Myth - Conspiracy Theory and Politics in Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover): Geoffrey Cubitt The Jesuit Myth - Conspiracy Theory and Politics in Nineteenth-Century France (Hardcover)
Geoffrey Cubitt
R4,566 Discovery Miles 45 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Belief in the Jesuit Conspiracy is one of the most important and enduring conspiracy theories in modern European history, and France was one of its major focuses. In this scholarly and detailed survey, Geoffrey Cubitt examines the range of polemical literature through which the prevalent conviction of Jesuitical plots was expressed, and explores political attitudes both within and outside the Catholic church. Cubitt uses the available evidence to contrast perceptions and reality, and to trace the development of a widespread and powerful myth. The Jesuit Myth offers valuable insights into the political and religious climate of nineteenth-century France.

The Patriot Parson of Lexington, Massachusetts: Reverend Jonas Clarke and the American Revolution (Paperback): Richard P Kollen The Patriot Parson of Lexington, Massachusetts: Reverend Jonas Clarke and the American Revolution (Paperback)
Richard P Kollen
R627 R570 Discovery Miles 5 700 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Liberalism in Germany (Hardcover): Christiane Banerji Liberalism in Germany (Hardcover)
Christiane Banerji; Dieter Langewiesche
R4,935 Discovery Miles 49 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the nineteenth century, German Liberalism grew into a powerful political movement vociferous in its demands for the freedom of the individual, for changes to allow the participation of all men in the political system and for a fundamental reform of the German states. As elsewhere in Europe, Liberalism was linked not only with a strong social commitment, but also with the formation of a national state. In this concise and authoritative study of liberalism in German, Dieter Langewiesche analyses the foundation and development of German liberalism from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. He takes into account the most recent research and scholarship in this field, examining the role of individual German states, the local roots of liberalism, the links between liberalism and its social bases of support, especially from bourgeois groups, and the forms of political organisation adopted by the liberals. The author addresses issues fundamental to an understanding of liberalism in Germany and the formation of the modern German state.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History (Hardcover, New): Helmut Walser Smith The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History (Hardcover, New)
Helmut Walser Smith
R4,840 Discovery Miles 48 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first comprehensive, multi-author survey of German history that features cutting-edge syntheses of major topics by an international team of leading scholars. Emphasizing demographic, economic, and political history, this Handbook places German history in a denser transnational context than any other general history of Germany. It underscores the centrality of war to the unfolding of German history, and shows how it dramatically affected the development of German nationalism and the structure of German politics. It also reaches out to scholars and students beyond the field of history with detailed and cutting-edge chapters on religious history and on literary history, as well as to contemporary observers, with reflections on Germany and the European Union, and on 'multi-cultural Germany.'
Covering the period from around 1760 to the present, this Handbook represents a remarkable achievement of synthesis based on current scholarship. It constitutes the starting point for anyone trying to understand the complexities of German history as well as the state of scholarly reflection on Germany's dramatic, often destructive, integration into the community of modern nations. As it brings this story to the present, it also places the current post-unification Federal Republic of Germany into a multifaceted historical context. It will be an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and anyone interested in modern Germany.

The British Officer - Leading the Army from 1660 to the present (Paperback): Anthony Clayton The British Officer - Leading the Army from 1660 to the present (Paperback)
Anthony Clayton
R1,350 Discovery Miles 13 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An Army officer must lead men into frightening and dangerous situations and sometimes make them do things that they never thought they could do. This book recounts how British officers have led their men, and commanded their respect, from the days of Marlborough to the Second Iraq war of 2003. Anthony Clayton explores who the officers, men and now women, have been and are, where they came from, what ideals or traditions have motivated them, and their own perceptions of themselves. His account tells the fascinating story of how the role of the military officer evolved, illustrated by a selection of captivating images, and the personal memoirs, biographies and autobiographies of officers.

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