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Imperial Homeland
Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa
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CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780271092997
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Penn State University Press
High Stakes, High Hopes
Urban Theorizing in Partnership
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CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780820365015
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
High Stakes, High Hopes tracks the building of urban theorizing in a decade-long urban research and teaching partnership in Cape Town, South Africa. An argument for collaborative urbanism, this book...
An Age of Hubris
Colonialism, Christianity, and the Xhosa in the Nineteenth Century
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CA$53.95
ISBN: 9780813949178
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
An Age of Hubris is the first comprehensive overview of the impact of missionary enterprise on the Xhosa chiefdoms of South Africa in the first half of the nineteenth century, chronicling a world punctuated...
Alluring Opportunities
Tourism, Empire, and African Labor in Colonial Mozambique
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CA$64.95
ISBN: 9781501768316
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Alluring Opportunities examines the lives of African laborers in the tourism industry in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique and the social ascension that many of these workers achieved in spite of...
You Can't Go to War without Song
Performance and Community Mobilization in South Africa
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CA$58.95
ISBN: 9780253063212
Pub Date: July 2022
You Can't Go to War without Song explores the role of public performance in political activism in contemporary South Africa. Weaving together detailed ethnographic fieldwork and an astute theoretical...
In the Skin of the City
Spatial Transformation in Luanda
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CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781478018155
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: Duke University Press
António Tomás traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, by showing how it emerges out of the continual redefinition and negotiation of its physical and social boundaries.
New Leaders, New Dawns?
South Africa and Zimbabwe under Cyril Ramaphosa and Emmerson Mnangagwa
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CA$140.00
ISBN: 9780228010609
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
In late 2017 and early 2018, South Africa and Zimbabwe both saw the unexpected fall of their sitting presidents, Jacob Zuma and Robert Mugabe. New Leaders, New Dawns? explores these political transitions and the way they were received, revealing that despite what the new leaders may have promised, a “new dawn” has not yet arrived in southern Africa.
New Leaders, New Dawns?
South Africa and Zimbabwe under Cyril Ramaphosa and Emmerson Mnangagwa
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CA$44.95
ISBN: 9780228010616
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
In late 2017 and early 2018, South Africa and Zimbabwe both saw the unexpected fall of their sitting presidents, Jacob Zuma and Robert Mugabe. New Leaders, New Dawns? explores these political transitions and the way they were received, revealing that despite what the new leaders may have promised, a “new dawn” has not yet arrived in southern Africa.
Burnished
Zulu Ceramics between Rural and Urban South Africa
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CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780253061874
Pub Date: June 2022
When Zulu women potters innovate or move to a more urban setting, they are asked why they have abandoned tradition. Yet when they continue to follow convention or choose to stay in rural areas, art...
Built on the Ruins of Empire
British Military Assistance and African Independence
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9780700633128
Pub Date: June 2022
During the Cold War the British government oversaw the transition to independence of dozens of colonies. Often the most challenging aspect of this transition was the creation of a national army from...
Cold War Liberation
The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-1975
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CA$48.95
ISBN: 9781469665863
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
Cold War Liberation examines the African revolutionaries who led armed struggles in three Portuguese colonies-Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau-and their liaisons in Moscow, Prague, East Berlin,...
Fractured Militancy
Precarious Resistance in South Africa after Racial Inclusion
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CA$44.95
ISBN: 9781501761799
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with activists, Fractured Militancy tells the story of postapartheid South Africa from the perspective of Johannesburg's impoverished urban...
Prisoners of the Past
South African democracy and the legacy of minority rule
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CA$19.98
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781776146840
Pub Date: June 2021
Imprint: New York University Press
Building on the work of economic historian Douglass North and Ugandan political scholar Mahmood Mamdani, Friedman argues that the difficulties besetting South African democracy are legacies of...
Fighting and Writing
The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar
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CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781478011729
Pub Date: March 2021
Imprint: Duke University Press
Luise White examines the contentious war memoirs published after the Zimbabwean liberation struggle (1964-1979) by white soldiers who fought for Rhodesia.
Precarious Power
Compliance and discontent under Ramaphosa's ANC
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CA$19.98
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781776146451
Pub Date: February 2021
Imprint: New York University Press
An incisive analysis of South Africa's ANC power-as party, as government, as stateSouth Africa's African National Congress (ANC) is in decline, its hegemony has been weakened, its...
An Ambulance on Safari
The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile
Price:
CA$140.00
ISBN: 9780228003298
Pub Date: October 2020
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
An Ambulance on Safari describes the efforts of the African National Congress (ANC) to deliver emergency healthcare to South African exiles and, in the same stroke, to establish political legitimacy and foster anti-apartheid sentiment on an international stage.
Imperial Homeland
Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9780271092997
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: Penn State University Press
High Stakes, High Hopes
Urban Theorizing in Partnership
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780820365015
Pub Date: September 2023
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
An Age of Hubris
Colonialism, Christianity, and the Xhosa in the Nineteenth Century
CA$53.95
ISBN: 9780813949178
Pub Date: July 2023
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
Alluring Opportunities
Tourism, Empire, and African Labor in Colonial Mozambique
CA$64.95
ISBN: 9781501768316
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: Cornell University Press
You Can't Go to War without Song
Performance and Community Mobilization in South Africa
CA$58.95
ISBN: 9780253063212
Pub Date: July 2022
In the Skin of the City
Spatial Transformation in Luanda
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781478018155
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: Duke University Press
New Leaders, New Dawns?
South Africa and Zimbabwe under Cyril Ramaphosa and Emmerson Mnangagwa
CA$140.00
ISBN: 9780228010609
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
New Leaders, New Dawns?
South Africa and Zimbabwe under Cyril Ramaphosa and Emmerson Mnangagwa
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9780228010616
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Burnished
Zulu Ceramics between Rural and Urban South Africa
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780253061874
Pub Date: June 2022
Built on the Ruins of Empire
British Military Assistance and African Independence
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9780700633128
Pub Date: June 2022
Cold War Liberation
The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-1975
CA$48.95
ISBN: 9781469665863
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
Fractured Militancy
Precarious Resistance in South Africa after Racial Inclusion
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9781501761799
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Prisoners of the Past
South African democracy and the legacy of minority rule
CA$19.98 CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781776146840
Pub Date: June 2021
Imprint: New York University Press
Fighting and Writing
The Rhodesian Army at War and Postwar
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781478011729
Pub Date: March 2021
Imprint: Duke University Press
Precarious Power
Compliance and discontent under Ramaphosa's ANC
CA$19.98 CA$39.95
ISBN: 9781776146451
Pub Date: February 2021
Imprint: New York University Press
An Ambulance on Safari
The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile
CA$140.00
ISBN: 9780228003298
Pub Date: October 2020
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
An Ambulance on Safari describes the efforts of the African National Congress (ANC) to deliver emergency healthcare to South African exiles and, in the same stroke, to establish political legitimacy and foster anti-apartheid sentiment on an international stage.