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  • Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories

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    'A bracing new history of the global opium trade . . . Ghosh's tentacular history embraces opium's entanglement with furniture, architecture, garde...

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  • The Taiwan Story: How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future

    Penguin Books Ltd
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    An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters - for China, the West and everyone's future'An authoritative primer to all things Taiwan' BARB...

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  • Southeast Asia

    Allen & Unwin
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    A lively and easy-to-read guide to Southeast Asian history written by one of the world's pre-eminent historians of the area.Southeast Asia: An intr...

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  • Wood, Iron and Steel: Shipwrecks Mapped off the Western Cape (Paperback)

    Bruce Henderson
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    Wood, Iron and Steel is the first of its kind in South Africa, combining state-of-the-art, high-resolution sonar images of shipwrecks, diving photo...

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  • The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

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    Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between...

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  • The Ottomans

    Thames & Hudson Ltd
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    'Exquisitely written and lavishly illustrated, this delightful book brings five centuries of Ottoman culture to life. Diana Darke constantly amazes...

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  • The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933

    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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    A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 ASPECTS OF HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR A GUARD...

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  • Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City

    Wordsworth Books
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    Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced th...

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  • Smuts And Mandela: The Men Who Made South Africa (Paperback)

    Roger Southall
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    South Africa has produced two leaders who achieved global recognition and renown in their respective eras: Jan Christiaan Smuts (Prime Minister, 19...

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  • Landscapes Of Dispossession

    Marietjie Oelofsen
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  • The Middle East Since 1945

    John Murray Press
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    This much needed new edition provides a complete and essential guide to this fast developing, ever changing and often tense region. This book, full...

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  • Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE

    Princeton University Press
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    A panoramic narrative that places ancient Africa on the stage of world historyThis book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to p...

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  • Harry Of England (Paperback)

    Teresa Cole
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    Eight kings of England were named Henry. Of these, only two, the third and the sixth, were born as heirs to the throne, and these proved to be the ...

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  • 24 Hours in the Viking World: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

    Michael O'mara Books Ltd
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    Spend 24 hours immersed in the rich and fascinating everyday lives of the Vikings.Between the infamous Lindisfarne raid in 793 CE and the Norman co...

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  • Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots

    Michael O'mara Books Ltd
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    A fascinating and revealing new biography of Mary Queen of Scots, drawing on dozens of newly decoded letters.For almost two decades before her exec...

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  • A History of Namibia (Paperback)

    Marion Wallace
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    When the UN's Australian troops arrived in Windhoek to help secure the peace process in the build-up to Namibia's Independence on March 21, 1990, t...

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  • Umkhonto weSizwe

    Wordsworth Books
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    This Friday, 16 December 2011, is the 50th anniversary of the launch of Umkhonto weSizwe. Umkhonto weSizwe, the Spear of the nation, popularly know...

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  • Life Esidimeni: Portraits of Lives Lost (Paperback)

    Harriet Perlman
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    When writer Harriet Perlman and photographer Mark Lewis set about documenting the lives of the families whose loved ones had been so horribly kille...

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  • A Seed of a Dream: Morris Isaacson High School and the Struggle for Education in Soweto, 1956-2012

    Clive Glaser
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    Morris Isaacson High School (MIHS) in Jabavu is widely known as the epicentre of the 1976 Soweto uprising. However, its legacy extends far beyond t...

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  • All Rise: Resistance, Rebellion and Revolt in South Africa

    Richard Conyngham
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    All Rise: Resistance, Rebellion, and Revolt in South Africa is an imaginative four-part graphic history series, based on little-known court records...

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  • The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage

    Penguin Books Ltd
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    For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean - an emp...

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  • 1776: America and Britain at War

    Penguin Books Ltd
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    America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. 1776 tells two gripping s...

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  • Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race

    Harvard University Press
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    2023 PROSE Award in European History"An invaluable historical example of the creation of a scientific conception of race that is unlikely to disapp...

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  • One of Us: The Story of a Massacre and its Aftermath

    Åsne Seierstad
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    THE STORY OF ANDERS BREIVIK AND THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX FILM 22 JULY, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL On 22 July ...

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  • The Chinese Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Legends

    Thames & Hudson Ltd
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    The essential guide to the complex, fascinating world of Chinese myths: retelling the stories and exploring their significance in Chinese culture. ...

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  • Hunting The Seven: How The Gugulethu Seven Assassins Were Exposed (Paperback)

    Beverley Roos-Muller
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    Never have seven people been so hunted. By assassins. By journalists and lawyers in search of the truth and then TRC investigators wanting justice ...

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  • A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East

    James Barr
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    A fascinating insight into the untold story of how British-French rivalry drew the battle-lines of the modern Middle East. In 1916, in the middl...

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  • Rhodes And His Banker: Empire, Wealth And The Coming Of Union (Paperback)

    Richard Steyn
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    Rhodes and his Banker tells the story of the remarkable friendship between Cecil John Rhodes, a larger-than-life historical figure, and Sir Lewis M...

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  • SOUTH AFRICAS POST-APARTHEID MILITARY

    University Of Cape Town Press
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    This timely book examines how the South African National Defence Force has adapted to the new security, political and social environment since 1994...

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    Long Walk To Freedom Vol 1: 1918-1962

    Nelson Mandela
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    The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experie...

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  • Nelson Mandela: By himself: The authorised book of quotations (Paperback)

    Nelson Mandela
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    Nelson Mandela: By Himself is the definitive book of quotations from one of the great leaders of our time. This collection - gathered from privileg...

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  • Ismail Mahomed: Liberating The Law

    Protea Boekhuis
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    The human rights legacy of former Chief Justice Ismail Mahomed features in a biographical sketch titled Ismail Mahomed: Liberating the Law. A secon...

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  • The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902

    Andre' Wessels
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  • The Meaning of Timbuktu

    Hsrc Press
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    This new edition will have a new forward. This volume, authored by leading international scholars, begins to sketch the 'meaning' of Timbuktu withi...

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  • Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict

    Oren Kessler
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    In spring 1936, the Holy Land erupted in rebellion, targeting both the local Jewish community and the British Mandate authorities that for two deca...

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  • A Step-by-Step Guide to Botanical Drawing & Painting: Create Realistic Pencil and Watercolor Illustrations of Flowers, Fruits, Plants and More! (With Over 800 illustrations)

    Tuttle Publishing
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    Bring the glory of the outdoors into your home with colorful, stylish, frame-worthy paintings!In this lushly illustrated book, master painter and a...

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