The article presents several books on South African history including "Testing Times: The Story of the Men Whom Made SA Cricket," by L. Alfred, "A fine Chest of Medals: The Life of Jack Archer," by C. Baker, "South Africa: More Good News," edited by B. Bowes and S. Pennington, ...
An African History of Africa is by Zeinab Badawi, a well-known British journalist who is now the president of SOAS, part of the University of London. The book follows on from a TV series, and Badawi visited some 34 countries as part of her research. The aim was to tell local history ...
Chinese Christian women have been largely excluded from studies on the history of the women’s movement in China and within studies on Chinese Christianity in the republican era. During the Mao era they were portrayed as bourgeois feminists who couldn’t really foster a true Chinese women’s mov...
lawyer, businessman and politician who was married to Olive Schreiner who was a South African author, pacifist, feminist and intellectual. They were the uncle and aunt of the big game hunterFrederick Finlayand contributed chapters to his book on hunting in south-east Africa. ...
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on South Sudan its history cannot be interpreted in a vacuum, and particularly North-South relations are discussed extensively in the book. Secondary school students in Sudan have either studied the history of Kenya and Uganda, or the history of North Sudan since no history book for South Sudan...
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and terrorism take on a new and increasingly lethal intensity. A Savage War of Peace is the definitive history of the Algerian War, a book that brings that terrible and complicated struggle to life with intelligence, assurance, and unflagging momentum. It is essential reading for our own violent...
We learned a ton, and came away with a far deeper understanding of the anguish caused by Apartheid, and the continuing legacy of that cruel chapter in South African history. Our host in Pretoria was a good friend, a Black American who lives there now and is, himself, steeped in South ...
I didn’t read all 960 pages of this book but I read enough to feel like I had a good handle on Russian culture. I like reading Rutherford when traveling to new places, he does great research and makes history narrative in a very readable way. When the English Fall, David Williams ...