‘This enthralling saga of crime, passion, and betrayal, is a compelling portrait of one of empire’s great, unsung antiheroes. The book is a scintillating achievement.’ – Jean Comaroff, Harvard University
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The Jameson Raid 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. In The Cowboy Capitalist, Charles van Onselen challenges a historiography of over 120 years, locating the raid in American rather than British history and forcing us to rethink the histories of at least three nations.
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The price exacted from across the African sub-continent for South Africa’s stalled 20th century industrial revolution is – in human terms – still largely hidden from history. This seminal work reveals how black labour was exploited to create wealth in 20th century South Africa.
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The price exacted from across the African sub-continent for South Africa’s stalled 20th century industrial revolution is – in human terms – still largely hidden from history. This seminal work reveals how black labour was exploited to create wealth in 20th century South Africa.
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Reprinted here with a fresh, new cover, The Seed is Mine was the winner of the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award in 1997 and was voted as one Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century by the Zimbabwe International Book Fair, in collaboration with the African Publishers Network (APNET) and the Pan-African Booksellers Association (PABA).
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Three Wise Monkeys explores some of the contradictions, silences and oversights, and working misunderstandings that arise when an emerging Anglophone, Protestant, industrial and urbanising state – South Africa – develops side by side with a Lusophone, Catholic, commercial, rural colony – Mozambique.
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