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Modern South Africa in World History - Beyond Imperialism (Hardcover): Rob Skinner Modern South Africa in World History - Beyond Imperialism (Hardcover)
Rob Skinner
R3,180 Discovery Miles 31 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book assesses South African history within imperial and global networks of power, trade and communication. South African modernity is understood in terms of the interplay between internal and external forces. Key historical themes, including the emergence of an industrialised economy, the development of systematic racial discrimination and popular resistance against racial power, and the influence of national and ethnic identities on political and social organisation, are set out in relation to imperial and global influences. This book is central to our understanding of South Africa in the context of world history.

Shaba II - The French and Belgian Intervention in Zaire in 1978 (Hardcover): Thomas P Odom Shaba II - The French and Belgian Intervention in Zaire in 1978 (Hardcover)
Thomas P Odom
R950 Discovery Miles 9 500 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The March of Christianity in Uganda (2nd Edition) - History of Christianity in Uganda (Paperback): Bishop Minani Henry The March of Christianity in Uganda (2nd Edition) - History of Christianity in Uganda (Paperback)
Bishop Minani Henry; Narrated by Pastor Kayanja Robert, Apostle Wagaba Isaac
R568 Discovery Miles 5 680 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Natural Genesis (Two Volumes in One) (Hardcover): Gerald Massey The Natural Genesis (Two Volumes in One) (Hardcover)
Gerald Massey
R1,986 Discovery Miles 19 860 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies - Studies on Diplomacy and Diplomatics (Hardcover): Frederic Bauden, Malika Dekkiche Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies - Studies on Diplomacy and Diplomatics (Hardcover)
Frederic Bauden, Malika Dekkiche
R5,222 Discovery Miles 52 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies offers an up-to-date insight into the diplomacy and diplomatics of the Mamluk sultanate with Muslim and non-Muslim powers. This rich volume covers the whole chronological span of the sultanate as well as the various areas of the diplomatic relations established by (or with) the Mamluk sultanate. Twenty-six essays are divided in geographical sections that broadly respect the political division of the world as the Mamluk chancery perceived it. In addition, two introductory essays provide the present stage of research in the fields of, respectively, diplomatics and diplomacy. With contributions by Frederic Bauden, Lotfi Ben Miled, Michele Bernardini, Barbara Boloix Gallardo, Anne F. Broadbridge, Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi, Stephan Conermann, Nicholas Coureas, Malika Dekkiche, Remi Dewiere, Kristof D'hulster, Marie Favereau, Gladys Frantz-Murphy, Yehoshua Frenkel, Hend Gilli-Elewy, Ludvik Kalus, Anna Kollatz, Julien Loiseau, Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros, John L. Meloy, Pierre Moukarzel, Lucian Reinfandt, Alessandro Rizzo, Eric Vallet, Valentina Vezzoli and Patrick Wing.

The West African Methodist Collegiate School, 1911-2021 (Hardcover): Christopher E. S. Warburton The West African Methodist Collegiate School, 1911-2021 (Hardcover)
Christopher E. S. Warburton
R879 R757 Discovery Miles 7 570 Save R122 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
First Footsteps in East Africa (Hardcover): Richard Francis Burton First Footsteps in East Africa (Hardcover)
Richard Francis Burton
R919 Discovery Miles 9 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lie on Your Wounds - The Prison Correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (Hardcover): Derek Hook Lie on Your Wounds - The Prison Correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (Hardcover)
Derek Hook; Robert Sobukwe
R2,761 Discovery Miles 27 610 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Five Years' Hunting Adventures in South Africa - Being an Account of Sport With the Lion, Elephant ...; 1892 (Hardcover):... Five Years' Hunting Adventures in South Africa - Being an Account of Sport With the Lion, Elephant ...; 1892 (Hardcover)
1820 Roualeyn George Gordon-Cumming
R923 Discovery Miles 9 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From The Frying Pan Into The Fire - Memoir of a Zimbabwean (Hardcover): Judith Mawoko From The Frying Pan Into The Fire - Memoir of a Zimbabwean (Hardcover)
Judith Mawoko
R603 R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Groep Sonder Grense - Die Rol En Status Van Die Gemengde Bevolking Aan Die Kaap, 1652-1795 (Afrikaans, Paperback, 3rd edition):... Groep Sonder Grense - Die Rol En Status Van Die Gemengde Bevolking Aan Die Kaap, 1652-1795 (Afrikaans, Paperback, 3rd edition)
H.F. Heese
R177 Discovery Miles 1 770 Ships in 6 - 10 working days
Index to Livingstone's Journal (Hardcover): David 1813-1873 Livingstone Index to Livingstone's Journal (Hardcover)
David 1813-1873 Livingstone; Created by David 1813-1873 Missio Livingstone, Russell E Train Africana Collection
R665 Discovery Miles 6 650 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The First Nation of Africa (Hardcover): Norris Walker The First Nation of Africa (Hardcover)
Norris Walker
R782 Discovery Miles 7 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Figures in a Spare Landscape - Serving In The Twilight Of Empire, Bornu Province, Nigeria, 1959-60 (Hardcover): Peter Haring... Figures in a Spare Landscape - Serving In The Twilight Of Empire, Bornu Province, Nigeria, 1959-60 (Hardcover)
Peter Haring Judd
R1,000 Discovery Miles 10 000 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Libya - History and Revolution (Hardcover): Richard A. Lobban, Chris H. Dalton Libya - History and Revolution (Hardcover)
Richard A. Lobban, Chris H. Dalton
R1,936 R1,735 Discovery Miles 17 350 Save R201 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This narrative chronicles Libya's, and to a vast extent Muammar Gaddafi's, remarkable past, meteoric rise to prominence, and convoluted reign, and introduces potential scenarios that may play out in the near term. After four decades of tyrannical, erratic-and pioneering-changes fueled by oil wealth, Muammar Gaddafi's government fell in 2011, and Libya embarked on a new course without known charts. Libya: History and Revolution covers the nation from its origins as independent land masses and kingdoms to its present as a consolidated nation. The work does not focus on the "old" Libya, but aims to bridge yesterday's Libya with tomorrow's, looking at the nation as a regional economic power and military player in North Africa and the Middle East. The result is a comprehensive yet easy-to-understand introduction to the political, economic, and military history and events that led to Gaddafi's downfall, coupled with a consideration of Libya's past and present. Opening with historical underpinnings, the book focuses on the conflict and revolution in Libya during the Arab Spring that brought Gaddafi down, a change that opened a new future for the oil-rich nation. The book closes with a thoughtful discussion of what may be next for Libya and of possible perils for the nation, the region, and the world, as Libya matures as an independent, representatively governed country. Covers Libya from its ancient beginnings to the present in one easily readable volume Provides a complete history of Gaddafi's Libya and its revolution, including the historical antecedents, Gaddafi's rise to power, his reign, and his fall during the Arab Spring Offers projections about the post-Gaddafi era and prospects for Libya going forward Brings together the perspectives and insights of two authors with distinct yet complementary backgrounds Offers scholars and professors the detail they seek without intimidating the undergraduate or general reader

A Lost Boy Found (Hardcover): John Mayen Deng A Lost Boy Found (Hardcover)
John Mayen Deng
R605 Discovery Miles 6 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Africans in China - A Sociocultural Study and Its Implications on Africa-China Relations (Hardcover, New): Adams Bodomo Africans in China - A Sociocultural Study and Its Implications on Africa-China Relations (Hardcover, New)
Adams Bodomo
R2,505 Discovery Miles 25 050 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

While there is much discussion on Africa-China relations, the focus tends to lean more on the Chinese presence in Africa than on the African presence in China. There are numerous studies on the former but, with the exception of a few articles on the presence of African traders and students in China, little is known of the latter, even though an increasing number of Africans are visiting and settling in China and forming migrant communities there. This is a phenomenon that has never happened before the turn of the century and has thus led to what is often termed Africa's newest Diaspora. This book focuses on analyzing this new Diaspora, addressing the crucial question: What is it like to be an African in China? Africans in China is the first book-length study of the process of Africans travelling to China and forming communities there. Based on innovative intermingling of qualitative and quantitative research methods involving prolonged interaction with approximately 800 Africans across six main Chinese cities--Guangzhou, Yiwu, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Macau--sociolinguistic and sociocultural profiles are constructed to depict the everyday life of Africans in China. The study provides insights into understanding issues such as why Africans go to China, what they do there, how they communicate with their Chinese hosts, what opportunities and problems they encounter in their China sojourn, and how they are received by the Chinese state. Beyond these methodological and empirical contributions, the book also makes a theoretical contribution by proposing a crosscultural bridge theory of migrant-indigene relations, arguing that Africans in China act as sociopolitical, socioeconomic, and sociocultural bridges linking Africa to China. This approach to the analysis of Diaspora communities has consequences for crosscultural and crosslinguistic studies in an era of globalization. Africans in China is an important book for African Studies, Asian Studies, Africa-China relations studies, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, international studies, and migration and Diaspora studies in an era of globalization.

The Aghlabids and their Neighbors - Art and Material Culture in Ninth-Century North Africa (English, French, Arabic,... The Aghlabids and their Neighbors - Art and Material Culture in Ninth-Century North Africa (English, French, Arabic, Hardcover)
Glaire D. Anderson, Corisande Fenwick, Mariam Rosser-Owen
R6,133 Discovery Miles 61 330 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The first dynasty to mint gold dinars outside of the Abbasid heartlands, the Aghlabid (r. 800-909) reign in North Africa has largely been neglected in the scholarship of recent decades, despite the canonical status of its monuments and artworks in early Islamic art history. The Aghlabids and their Neighbors focuses new attention on this key dynasty. The essays in this volume, produced by an international group of specialists in history, art and architectural history, archaeology, and numismatics, illuminate the Aghlabid dynasty's interactions with neighbors in the western Mediterranean and its rivals and allies elsewhere, providing a state of the question on early medieval North Africa and revealing the centrality of the dynasty and the region to global economic and political networks. Contributors: Lotfi Abdeljaouad, Glaire D. Anderson, Lucia Arcifa, Fabiola Ardizzone, Alessandra Bagnera, Jonathan M. Bloom, Lorenzo Bondioli, Chloe Capel, Patrice Cressier, Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi, Abdelaziz Daoulatli, Claire Delery, Ahmed El Bahi, Kaoutar Elbaljan, Ahmed Ettahiri, Abdelhamid Fenina, Elizabeth Fentress, Abdallah Fili, Mohamed Ghodhbane, Caroline Goodson, Soundes Gragueb Chatti, Khadija Hamdi, Renata Holod, Jeremy Johns, Tarek Kahlaoui, Hugh Kennedy, Sihem Lamine, Faouzi Mahfoudh, David Mattingly, Irene Montilla, Annliese Nef, Elena Pezzini, Nadege Picotin, Cheryl Porter, Dwight Reynolds, Viva Sacco, Elena Salinas, Martin Sterry.

Coptic Ostraca - From the Collections of the Egypt Exploration Fund, the Cairo Museum and Others (Hardcover): W E (Walter... Coptic Ostraca - From the Collections of the Egypt Exploration Fund, the Cairo Museum and Others (Hardcover)
W E (Walter Ewing) 1865-1944 Crum, Egypt Exploration Fund Special Publi, F E (Frank Edward) 1856 Brightman
R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Making Gullah - A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination (Hardcover): Melissa Cooper Making Gullah - A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination (Hardcover)
Melissa Cooper
R2,688 Discovery Miles 26 880 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

During the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections between African Americans and their African roots. At the same time, popular print media and artistic productions tapped the new appeal of black folk life, highlighting African-styled voodoo networks, positioning beating drums and blood sacrifices as essential elements of black folk culture. Inspired by this curious mix of influences, researchers converged on one site in particular, Sapelo Island, Georgia, to seek support for their theories about ""African survivals."" The legacy of that body of research is the area's contemporary identification as a Gullah community and a set of broader notions about Gullah identity. This wide-ranging history upends a long tradition of scrutinizing the Low Country blacks of Sapelo Island by refocusing the observational lens on those who studied them. Cooper uses a wide variety of sources to unmask the connections between the rise of the social sciences, the voodoo craze during the interwar years, the black studies movement, and black land loss and land struggles in coastal black communities in the Low Country. What emerges is a fascinating examination of Gullah people's heritage, and how it was reimagined and transformed to serve vastly divergent ends over the decades.

Polygyny - The Ancient African Welfare System (Hardcover): Curtis Rogers Polygyny - The Ancient African Welfare System (Hardcover)
Curtis Rogers
R829 Discovery Miles 8 290 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Maryland in Liberia; a History of the Colony Planted by the Maryland State Colonization Society Under the Auspices of the State... Maryland in Liberia; a History of the Colony Planted by the Maryland State Colonization Society Under the Auspices of the State of Maryland, U. S., at Cape Palmas on the Southwest Coast of Africa, 1833-1853 ... A Paper Read Before the Maryland... (Hardcover)
John H B (John Hazlehurst Latrobe
R771 Discovery Miles 7 710 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Die Brug - Na Die Hel En Terug In Angola (Afrikaans, Paperback): Deon Lamprecht Die Brug - Na Die Hel En Terug In Angola (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Deon Lamprecht
R280 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R30 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In vergeelde foto’s van drie dekades gelede staan oopgesigseuns vol bravade voor Ratel-gevegsvoertuie. Hierdie dienspligtiges van 61 Gemeganiseerde Bataljongroep staan aan die begin van hul reis diep in Angola in om vir volk en vaderland te gaan veg.

In ’n bloedige geveg op Valentynsdag 1988 en in die doodsakker by Tumpo sou hul jeugdige onskuld egter sneuwel. In die hitte van die gevegte kom die besef: Nou gaan dit nie oor ideologie nie, maar om oorlewing.

Ná die oorlog gaan die lewe voort, maar die vrae en geestelike letsels wyk nie. In 2018 keer ’n groep van dié ouddienspligtiges terug na Cuito Cuanavale op soek na afsluiting - en om die wrak te vind van die Ratel waarin ’n makker op die laaste dag van die oorlog gesterf het.

Die Brug vertel van hul reis van jong man na veteraan en gee ook ’n stem aan die vroue in hul lewe. Dit is ’n verhaal van ontnugtering, maar ook van trotse kameraderie en genesing.

Port Nolloth - The Making of a South African Seaport: The Making of a South African Seaport (Hardcover): Patrick Richard... Port Nolloth - The Making of a South African Seaport: The Making of a South African Seaport (Hardcover)
Patrick Richard Carstens
R852 Discovery Miles 8 520 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Labour in Portuguese West Africa (Hardcover): Cadbury William, Burtt Joseph, Horton W. Claude Labour in Portuguese West Africa (Hardcover)
Cadbury William, Burtt Joseph, Horton W. Claude
R828 Discovery Miles 8 280 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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