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In some settings, such as Ireland, contiguous Catholic and Protestant states are often not conducive to good relations or neighbourliness. In colon...

This delightful collection of photographs covers the first sixty years of Johannesburg's history. Like any pictorial urban history, most of the pho...

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The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this his...

This book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to provide a sweeping global history of ancient Africa, tracing how the continent ...

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As a young Reuters correspondent, Bridgland revealed the secret invasion in 1975 of post-independence Angola by apartheid South Africa’s armed forc...

The incredible true story of the greatest illusionist of modern times and the man who altered the course of the second world war.Soon to be a major...

In his annual presidential address on 8 January 1986, ANC president Oliver Tambo called on South Africans to make apartheid ungovernable through mi...

Dit is ’n sensitiewe, getroue, amusante vertelling oor die unieke ervarings van ’n Vrystaatse boeregesin tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog. Van die s...

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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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An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through importa...

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The Mis-Education of the Negro was originally published in 1933 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. According to his thesis explained in the book, African-Am...

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The history of Germany is intricately woven. Threaded in time through its struggles and triumphs with religion, industrialisation, enlightenment, p...

From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for...

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