Skip to content

History & Politics

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

    Wordsworth Books
    Original price R 240.00 - Original price R 240.00
    Original price R 240.00
    R 240.00
    R 240.00 - R 240.00
    Current price R 240.00

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

    View full details
    Original price R 240.00 - Original price R 240.00
    Original price R 240.00
    R 240.00
    R 240.00 - R 240.00
    Current price R 240.00
  • Smuts And Mandela: The Men Who Made South Africa (Paperback)

    Roger Southall
    Original price R 380.00 - Original price R 380.00
    Original price R 380.00
    R 380.00
    R 380.00 - R 380.00
    Current price R 380.00

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

    View full details
    Original price R 380.00 - Original price R 380.00
    Original price R 380.00
    R 380.00
    R 380.00 - R 380.00
    Current price R 380.00
  • Landscapes Of Dispossession

    Marietjie Oelofsen
    Original price R 450.00 - Original price R 450.00
    Original price R 450.00
    R 450.00
    R 450.00 - R 450.00
    Current price R 450.00

    Original price R 450.00 - Original price R 450.00
    Original price R 450.00
    R 450.00
    R 450.00 - R 450.00
    Current price R 450.00
  • The Middle East Since 1945

    John Murray Press
    Original price R 445.00 - Original price R 445.00
    Original price R 445.00
    R 445.00
    R 445.00 - R 445.00
    Current price R 445.00

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

    View full details
    Original price R 445.00 - Original price R 445.00
    Original price R 445.00
    R 445.00
    R 445.00 - R 445.00
    Current price R 445.00
  • Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE

    Princeton University Press
    Original price R 565.00 - Original price R 565.00
    Original price R 565.00
    R 565.00
    R 565.00 - R 565.00
    Current price R 565.00

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

    View full details
    Original price R 565.00 - Original price R 565.00
    Original price R 565.00
    R 565.00
    R 565.00 - R 565.00
    Current price R 565.00
  • Harry Of England (Paperback)

    Teresa Cole
    Original price R 350.00 - Original price R 350.00
    Original price R 350.00
    R 350.00
    R 350.00 - R 350.00
    Current price R 350.00

    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 ...

    View full details
    Original price R 350.00 - Original price R 350.00
    Original price R 350.00
    R 350.00
    R 350.00 - R 350.00
    Current price R 350.00
  • 24 Hours in the Viking World: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

    Michael O'mara Books Ltd
    Original price R 340.00 - Original price R 340.00
    Original price R 340.00
    R 340.00
    R 340.00 - R 340.00
    Current price R 340.00

    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...

    View full details
    Original price R 340.00 - Original price R 340.00
    Original price R 340.00
    R 340.00
    R 340.00 - R 340.00
    Current price R 340.00
  • Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots

    Michael O'mara Books Ltd
    Original price R 390.00 - Original price R 390.00
    Original price R 390.00
    R 390.00
    R 390.00 - R 390.00
    Current price R 390.00

    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...

    View full details
    Original price R 390.00 - Original price R 390.00
    Original price R 390.00
    R 390.00
    R 390.00 - R 390.00
    Current price R 390.00
  • A History of Namibia (Paperback)

    Marion Wallace
    Original price R 390.00 - Original price R 390.00
    Original price R 390.00
    R 390.00
    R 390.00 - R 390.00
    Current price R 390.00

    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...

    View full details
    Original price R 390.00 - Original price R 390.00
    Original price R 390.00
    R 390.00
    R 390.00 - R 390.00
    Current price R 390.00
  • Umkhonto weSizwe

    Wordsworth Books
    Original price R 195.01 - Original price R 195.01
    Original price R 195.01
    R 195.01
    R 195.01 - R 195.01
    Current price R 195.01

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

    View full details
    Original price R 195.01 - Original price R 195.01
    Original price R 195.01
    R 195.01
    R 195.01 - R 195.01
    Current price R 195.01
  • Life Esidimeni: Portraits of Lives Lost (Paperback)

    Harriet Perlman
    Original price R 320.00 - Original price R 320.00
    Original price R 320.00
    R 320.00
    R 320.00 - R 320.00
    Current price R 320.00

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

    View full details
    Original price R 320.00 - Original price R 320.00
    Original price R 320.00
    R 320.00
    R 320.00 - R 320.00
    Current price R 320.00
  • A Seed of a Dream: Morris Isaacson High School and the Struggle for Education in Soweto, 1956-2012

    Clive Glaser
    Original price R 265.00 - Original price R 265.00
    Original price R 265.00
    R 265.00
    R 265.00 - R 265.00
    Current price R 265.00

    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...

    View full details
    Original price R 265.00 - Original price R 265.00
    Original price R 265.00
    R 265.00
    R 265.00 - R 265.00
    Current price R 265.00
  • All Rise: Resistance, Rebellion and Revolt in South Africa

    Richard Conyngham
    Original price R 290.00 - Original price R 290.00
    Original price R 290.00
    R 290.00
    R 290.00 - R 290.00
    Current price R 290.00

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

    View full details
    Original price R 290.00 - Original price R 290.00
    Original price R 290.00
    R 290.00
    R 290.00 - R 290.00
    Current price R 290.00
  • The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage

    Penguin Books Ltd
    Original price R 295.00 - Original price R 295.00
    Original price R 295.00
    R 295.00
    R 295.00 - R 295.00
    Current price R 295.00

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

    View full details
    Original price R 295.00 - Original price R 295.00
    Original price R 295.00
    R 295.00
    R 295.00 - R 295.00
    Current price R 295.00
  • 1776: America and Britain at War

    Penguin Books Ltd
    Original price R 420.00 - Original price R 420.00
    Original price R 420.00
    R 420.00
    R 420.00 - R 420.00
    Current price R 420.00

    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...

    View full details
    Original price R 420.00 - Original price R 420.00
    Original price R 420.00
    R 420.00
    R 420.00 - R 420.00
    Current price R 420.00
  • Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race

    Harvard University Press
    Original price R 450.00 - Original price R 450.00
    Original price R 450.00
    R 450.00
    R 450.00 - R 450.00
    Current price R 450.00

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

    View full details
    Original price R 450.00 - Original price R 450.00
    Original price R 450.00
    R 450.00
    R 450.00 - R 450.00
    Current price R 450.00
  • One of Us: The Story of a Massacre and its Aftermath

    Åsne Seierstad
    Original price R 360.00 - Original price R 360.00
    Original price R 360.00
    R 360.00
    R 360.00 - R 360.00
    Current price R 360.00

    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 ...

    View full details
    Original price R 360.00 - Original price R 360.00
    Original price R 360.00
    R 360.00
    R 360.00 - R 360.00
    Current price R 360.00
  • The Chinese Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Legends

    Thames & Hudson Ltd
    Original price R 505.00 - Original price R 505.00
    Original price R 505.00
    R 505.00
    R 505.00 - R 505.00
    Current price R 505.00

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

    View full details
    Original price R 505.00 - Original price R 505.00
    Original price R 505.00
    R 505.00
    R 505.00 - R 505.00
    Current price R 505.00
  • Hunting The Seven: How The Gugulethu Seven Assassins Were Exposed (Paperback)

    Beverley Roos-Muller
    Original price R 320.00 - Original price R 320.00
    Original price R 320.00
    R 320.00
    R 320.00 - R 320.00
    Current price R 320.00

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

    View full details
    Original price R 320.00 - Original price R 320.00
    Original price R 320.00
    R 320.00
    R 320.00 - R 320.00
    Current price R 320.00
  • A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East

    James Barr
    Original price R 295.00 - Original price R 295.00
    Original price R 295.00
    R 295.00
    R 295.00 - R 295.00
    Current price R 295.00

    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...

    View full details
    Original price R 295.00 - Original price R 295.00
    Original price R 295.00
    R 295.00
    R 295.00 - R 295.00
    Current price R 295.00
  • Rhodes And His Banker: Empire, Wealth And The Coming Of Union (Paperback)

    Richard Steyn
    Original price R 340.00 - Original price R 340.00
    Original price R 340.00
    R 340.00
    R 340.00 - R 340.00
    Current price R 340.00

    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...

    View full details
    Original price R 340.00 - Original price R 340.00
    Original price R 340.00
    R 340.00
    R 340.00 - R 340.00
    Current price R 340.00
  • SOUTH AFRICAS POST-APARTHEID MILITARY

    University Of Cape Town Press
    Original price R 300.00 - Original price R 300.00
    Original price R 300.00
    R 300.00
    R 300.00 - R 300.00
    Current price R 300.00

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

    View full details
    Original price R 300.00 - Original price R 300.00
    Original price R 300.00
    R 300.00
    R 300.00 - R 300.00
    Current price R 300.00
  • Save 30% Save %

    Long Walk To Freedom Vol 1: 1918-1962

    Nelson Mandela
    Original price R 69.00
    Original price R 69.00 - Original price R 69.00
    Original price R 69.00
    Current price R 48.30
    R 48.30 - R 48.30
    Current price R 48.30

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

    View full details
    Original price R 69.00
    Original price R 69.00 - Original price R 69.00
    Original price R 69.00
    Current price R 48.30
    R 48.30 - R 48.30
    Current price R 48.30
    Save 30% Save %
  • Nelson Mandela: By himself: The authorised book of quotations (Paperback)

    Nelson Mandela
    Original price R 220.00 - Original price R 220.00
    Original price R 220.00
    R 220.00
    R 220.00 - R 220.00
    Current price R 220.00

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

    View full details
    Original price R 220.00 - Original price R 220.00
    Original price R 220.00
    R 220.00
    R 220.00 - R 220.00
    Current price R 220.00

x

x