Welcome to Loot.co.za! Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search

Checkout
- Your Cart Price

Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies

Buy Now

Books That Matter - David Philip Publishers During The Apartheid Years (Paperback) Price: R262

Discovery Miles 2 620

Add to cart

Books That Matter - David Philip Publishers During The Apartheid Years (Paperback)

Marie Philip

(sign in to rate)

Price R262

Sold by

Aristata Bookshop - Fulfilled by Loot

Discovery Miles 2 620

Expected to ship within 2 - 4 working days

See all buying options

Description
Details
Customer Reviews

South Africa in the 1970s was a divided and increasingly traumatised country, seemingly permanently in the toils of apartheid, and with little space available for open discussion of apartheid policies or awareness of just what those policies were meaning in the lives of people. It was in this context that David Philip, a South African already involved for several years in publishing, became convinced there must be more opportunity for books with informed discussion and debate to be written and published within the country.

He persuaded his wife Marie, also with publishing experience, that they could together set up their own independent publishing company, to publish 'Books that matter for Southern Africa'- in social history, politics, literature, or whatever, good of their kind and ready to challenge mainstream apartheid thinking.

This is an anecdotal account - a memoir - of the lows and highs of a small, cheerful, underfunded but vibrant 'oppositional' publishing company, David Philip Publishers, from the year 1971 through to the birth of the new South Africa.

General

Imprint:	David Philip, Publishers
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	November 2014
Authors:	Marie Philip
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	154
ISBN-13:	978-1-4856-2287-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Publishing industry Books > Biography > General Books > Local Author Showcase > Biography Promotions Books > Local Author Showcase > Lifestyle
LSN:	1-4856-2287-5
Barcode:	9781485622871