South category: 6019 books
Letters of Stone
From Nazi Germany to South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
As a young boy growing up in Port Elizabeth in the 1960s and 1970s, Steven Robins was haunted by an old postcard-size photograph of three unknown women on a table in the dining room. Only later did he learn that the women were his father’s mother and sisters, photographed in Berlin in 1937, before...
by F. C. Selous
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Frederick Courteney Selous (1851-1917) was a British explorer, hunter and conservationist, and is most remembered for his activities in Southeast Africa. Selous explored lesser-known areas, where he recorded ethnographic notes and collected specimens. ‘Big Game Shooting’, published in 1894, is...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
The Thabo Mbeki I Know is a collection that celebrates one of South Africa’s most exceptional thought leaders. The contributors include those who first got to know Thabo Mbeki as a young man, in South Africa and in exile, and those who encountered him as a statesman and worked alongside him as an...
by Douglas Foster
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
The most important historical and journalistic portrait to date of a nation whose destiny will determine the fate of a continent.
A brutally honest exposé, After Mandela provides a sobering portrait of a country caught between a democratic future and a political meltdown. Recent works have...
20 Years of Democracy in South Africa
A Sunday Times Timeline
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Highlights from South Africa's first twenty years of freedom, from Nelson Mandela's inauguration to the 2010 World Cup. A timeline of events augmented by Sunday Times coverage.
by Leonard Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
A leading scholar of South Africa provides a fresh and penetrating exploration of that country’s history, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present. Focusing primarily on the experiences of its black inhabitants, this richly illustrated book is essential reading for anyone...
Buzzards and Bananas
Fragments from my Journals Across South America - Peru, the Amazon, Chile and Bolivia 1977-78
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Join George and Mary Ayers in the late seventies when South America was a little rougher and a little wilder, for an incredible journey through Peru, the Amazon, Chile, and Bolivia. Fusing together details scoured from their personal journals, photos, and letters home, Buzzards and Bananas captures the...
by Markus Fraundorfer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In recent years, a growing literature has focused on how to create more effective and democratic global governance mechanisms to better tackle global challenges such as health epidemics, global hunger, Internet surveillance or the consequences of climate change. Yet there is a gap in accessible published...
The Life and Times of E. R. Braithwaite
Honorary White, Reluctant Neighbors, and A Kind of Homecoming
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Three compelling memoirs from the author of the “moving and inspiring” international bestseller, To Sir, With Love (The New York Times).
E. R. Braithwaite wrote powerfully and poignantly about racial discrimination—both in his most famous novel, based on his own experience teaching in London’s...
The State vs. Nelson Mandela
The Trial that Changed South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
On July 11, 1963, a seemingly harmless dry cleaning van drew up outside a rural farm near Johannesburg, South Africa. Within seconds, heavily armed police had burst out and arrested the entire high command of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Together with the already imprisoned...
8115: A Prisoner's Home
A Prisoner's Home
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela describes his house at 8115 Vilakazi Street, Soweto, as '... identical to hundreds of others ... it had the same standard tin roof, the same cement floor, a narrow kitchen, and a bucket toilet at the back.' Little did Mandela know when he...
Iowa and the World
Memoirs of Senator Dick Clark
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2017
Elected senator from Iowa in 1972, Dick Clark is one of a select few American public servants whose name is associated with the downfall of apartheid in South Africa: his defeat in the senatorial campaign of 1978 resulted in part from the South African government’s secret and illegal monetary contributions...
Culinary Fictions
Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
For South Asians, food regularly plays a role in how issues of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and national identity are imagined as well as how notions of belonging are affirmed or resisted. Culinary Fictions provides food for thought as it considers the metaphors literature, film, and TV shows...
Gordian Knot
Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Writing more than one hundred years ago, African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois speculated that the great dilemma of the twentieth century would be the problem of "the color line." Nowhere was the dilemma of racial discrimination more entrenched-and more complex-than South Africa. Gordian...