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Ryan M. Irwin

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Oxford Studies in International History

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 Knot examines South Africa's freedom struggle in the years surrounding African decolonization, using the global apartheid debate to explore the way new nation-states changed the international co...

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Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Chaudoin, Susan Colbourn, Martin Conway, James Goldgeier, Richard H. Immerman, Robert Legvold, Anthony Dirk Moses, Sarah B. Snyder, Jennifer Spindel, James Stocker, John A. Thompson, Christy Thornton, Thomas Zeiler, F. Gregory Gause III, Randall Schweller, Dayna Barnes, Frank Ninkovich, William Hitchcock, Jonathan Monten, Elizabeth Economy, Matthew Evangelista, Lindsay Aqui, Audie Klotz, Joshua Busby, Jonathan DiCicco, William Glenn Gray, Samuel Zipp, Angela Stent, Michael Barnett, Deborah Avant, Emma Ashford, Ryan Irwin, Nicholas Mulder, Tanvi Madan, Kathryn Statler, Jason Ludwig, Rebecca Slayton, Nivi Manchada, Helen V. Milner, Dustin Tingley, George N. Georgarakis, Robert Shapiro, Alessandro Brogi, Lawrence Freedman, Charles S. Maier

The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order—the system of institutions and norms established after World War II—was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against irreparable changes in international politics? What does the future hold for the international ...

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Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Chaudoin, Susan Colbourn, Martin Conway, James Goldgeier, Richard H. Immerman, Robert Legvold, Anthony Dirk Moses, Sarah B. Snyder, Jennifer Spindel, James Stocker, John A. Thompson, Christy Thornton, Thomas Zeiler, F. Gregory Gause III, Randall Schweller, Dayna Barnes, Frank Ninkovich, William Hitchcock, Jonathan Monten, Elizabeth Economy, Matthew Evangelista, Lindsay Aqui, Audie Klotz, Joshua Busby, Jonathan DiCicco, William Glenn Gray, Samuel Zipp, Angela Stent, Michael Barnett, Deborah Avant, Emma Ashford, Ryan Irwin, Nicholas Mulder, Tanvi Madan, Kathryn Statler, Jason Ludwig, Rebecca Slayton, Nivi Manchada, Helen V. Milner, Dustin Tingley, George N. Georgarakis, Robert Shapiro, Alessandro Brogi, Lawrence Freedman, Charles S. Maier

The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order—the system of institutions and norms established after World War II—was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against irreparable changes in international politics? What does the future hold for the international ...

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Paul Theroux

The acclaimed author of Dark Star Safari journeys across western Africa in this "thoroughly engrossing [and] at times tragic" travelogue ( Washington Post).Paul Theroux's best-selling Dark Star Safari chronicled his epic overland voyage from Cairo to Cape Town, providing an insider's look at modern Africa. Now, with The Last Train to Zona Verde, he returns to discover how both he and Africa have changed in the ensuing years. Trav...

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Written by a contemporary observer, this book offers a strategic and political analysis of the conflict between the British Empire and the Boer republics. It details the guerrilla tactics, the sieges, and the difficult terrain that characterized the war in South Africa. The text provides a critical look at military incompetence and the resilience of the opposing forces. It stands as a significant historical document regarding the twilight of imperial warfare.

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Ryszard Kapuscinski

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William Brand

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Penguin Modern Classics

'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sloppy, dogged and cruel'. In his account, Kapuscinski demonstrates an extraordinary capacity to describe and to explain the individual meaning of grand political abstractions.

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Frederick Selous.

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Elibron Classics

Elibron Classics. Replica of 1893 edition by Rowland Ward and Co., Limited, London.The edition comes with PDF maps available as a free download.This edition includes illustrations.Frederick Courteney Selous (1851 - 1917) was a British explorer, officer, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in South-East Africa. Selous was also a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and Frederick Russell Burnham.The book narrates the story of eleven years of...

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Grant Allen

A South African millionaire is hounded by a mischievous and larcenous conman, Colonel Clay, in this classic British mystery from Grant Allen, author of The British Barbarians.

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Alois Mlambo, Brian Raftopoulos

Becoming Zimbabwe is the first comprehensive history of Zimbabwe, spanning the years from 850 to 2008. In 1997, the then Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Morgan Tsvangirai, expressed the need for a 'more open and critical process of writing history in Zimbabwe. ...The history of a nation-in-the-making should not be reduced to a selective heroic tradition, but should be a tolerant and continuing process of questioning and re-examination.' Becoming Zimbabwe tracks ...

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Toc Walsh

Toc Walsh was conscripted into intake 138 Depot Rhodesia Regiment on 18 April 1974 and endured a year of what he deemed to be ‘military mayhem’. In July 1976, he was drafted again with the 10th Battalion Rhodesia Regiment to continue his wild ride into the maniacal world of combat. The country was in a state of national emergency and all available men were called up on continuous service. Mampara is a no-holds-barred look at one man’s lived experience of war.The title of the book s...

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Tom Lodge

On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signalled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's Apartheid policies. The events at Sharpeville deeply affected the attitudes of both black and white in...

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Iris Berger

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New Oxford World History

This volume begins in the early centuries of the Common Era with the various groups of people who had settled in southern Africa. Stone Age foragers, farmers with iron technology, and pastoralists all interacted to create a complex society before Europeans arrived. In the seventeenth century, Dutch settlers developed a colonial society based on the menial labor of indigenous inhabitants of the Cape and slaves imported from the East Indies and other parts of Africa. British conquest in the ...