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  • Audiolibro

    Our Ghosts Were Once People

    Stories on Death and Dying

    Integrale

    8 ore 19 minuti

    ‘I would get out of the car at every shopping centre and want to ask the stranger walking by with their trolley: “Why are you still shopping? Someone I love has died.”’ – Dela GwalaDeath is a fact of life, but the experience of grief is unique to each of us. This timely collection brings together a range of voices to offer reflections on death and dying, from individual losses to large scale ... Altre info

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  • Audiolibro

    Night Trains, The

    Moving Mozambican miners to and from the Witwatersrand Mines, 1902–1955

    Narrato da Sello Sebotsane ...

    Integrale

    7 ore 54 minuti

    ON THE NIGHT TRAINS, THE LAST STOP WAS ALWAYS HELL.The price exacted from across the African subcontinent for South Africa’s stalled 20th-century industrial revolution is, in human terms, still largely hidden from history. For half a century, up to the mid-1950s, privately operated trains travelled by night between Ressano Garcia, on the Mozambique border, and Booysens station, in Johannesburg. ... Altre info

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    Black Tax

    Burden ... or Ubuntu?

    Integrale

    7 ore 48 minuti

    The real significance of this book lies in the fact that it tells us more about the everyday life of black South Africans. It delves into the essence of black family life and the secret anguish of family members who often battle to cope. – Niq MhlongoA secret torment for some, a proud responsibility for others, ‘black tax’ is a daily reality for thousands of black South Africans. In this thought ... Altre info

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  • Three Wise Monkeys

    The Making of an African Economic Tragedy

    Volume 1 of Three Wise Monkeys explores the Portuguese colonisation of Mozambique, and the gradual transformation of the colony into a reservoir of cheap labour, first during the Atlantic slave trade and then during the rise of the voracious Rand mining industry. Mozambique became locked into financial dependence on South Africa. The South African mining industry came to own significant parts of ... Altre info

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  • Three Wise Monkeys

    Through the Turnstiles of the Mind

    Volume 2 of Three Wise Monkeys explores Catholic Mozambique's role in the leisure economy of Protestant South Africa, as a place where bachelor miners and Randlords alike could project their fantasies of subtropical exotica, whether in the raucous bars and brothels of the port or in the development of the upmarket Polana Hotel and the vision of segregated 'tourist zones' for race-conscious Rand ... Altre info

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  • Three Wise Monkeys

    The Quest for Wealth Without Work

    The Three Wise Monkeys trilogy culminates with a forensic examination of South Africa's long struggle to suppress gambling, and especially lotteries. The opposition of the Calvinist churches – both Afrikaans and English-speaking – had its counterpart in the eager embrace of games of chance by the white working class on the Witwatersrand. Focusing on the career of Rufe Naylor, an Australian ... Altre info

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  • The Cowboy Capitalist

    John Hays Hammond, the American West and the Jameson Raid

    The Jameson Raid of 1895–1896 was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of South Africa in 1910 and the advent of apartheid in 1948. For over a century, the failed revolution has been interpreted through the lens of British imperialism, with responsibility laid at the feet of Cecil John Rhodes.But rigorous historical ... Altre info

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  • The Seed is Mine

    The life of Kas Maine, a South African sharecropper 1894–1985

    A bold and innovative social history, The Seed Is Mine concerns the disenfranchised blacks who did so much to shape the destiny of South Africa. After years of interviews with Kas Maine and his neighbors, employers, friends, and family – a rare triumph of collaborative courage and dedication – Charles van Onselen has recreated the entire life of a man who struggled to maintain his family in a ... Altre info

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  • The Fox and the Flies

    The Criminal World of the Whitechapel Murderer

    At the end of the nineteenth century European pimps and 'white slavers' established a hugely successful global market for commercial sex and for three turbulent decades before the First World War, Joseph Silver was central to this hidden world of betrayal, intrigue, lust and sexual slavery.Burglar, gun-runner and trafficker in women on four continents, Silver was a disturbed adolescent, youthful ... Altre info

    9,49 €

  • Showdown at the Red Lion

    The Life and Time of Jack McLoughlin

    Johannesburg, South Africa, was ? and is ? the Frontier of Money. Within months of its founding, the mining camp was host to organised crime: the African 'Regiment of the Hills' and 'Irish Brigade' bandits. Bars, brothels, boarding houses and hotels oozed testosterone and violence, and the use of fists and guns was commonplace. Beyond the chaos were clear signs of another struggle, one to maintain ... Altre info

    9,97 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus

  • The Night Trains

    Moving Mozambican Miners to and from the Witwatersrand Mines, 1902-1955

    This seminal book reveals how black labor was exploited in twentieth-century South Africa, the human costs of which are still largely hidden from history. It was the people of southern Mozambique, bent double beneath the historical loads of forced labor and slavery, then sold off en masse as contracted laborers, who paid the highest price for South African gold. An iniquitous intercolonial ... Altre info

    32,85 €

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    If 1916 is the founding myth of the Irish state then the famine is the founding tragedy.It was a tragedy on a truly epic scale, the events of the famine came to pass not in one of the worlds poorest nations, but in what was at the time part of metropolitan Britain (following the Act of Union of 1800).Caused by the destruction of the staple food of the ordinary Irishman and women, the potato, by ... Altre info

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