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Sub-Saharan Africa

Paperback. Explores the images of Africa and Africans that evolved in ancient Egypt, in classical Greece and imperial Rome, in the early Mediterranean world, and in the early domains of Christianity. This book provides a survey of the special place that Aksumite Ethiopia has held in European and African conceptual worlds as the site of 'worthy Ethiopia'. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrated in full colour. BIC Classification: 1HFGA; HBJH; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 33. Weight in Grams: 930.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868144990
ISBN
9781868144990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Focuses on a talented, brave, but tiny minority of whites - liberals, radicals, communists, Trotskyists, humanists, Christians, idealists - who rejected the growing racism of post-war South Africa and worked to breach the dividing line between black and white. Num Pages: 240 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJP; HBJH; HBLW3; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868145003
ISBN
9781868145003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. While there are many studies of the global influence of crops and plants, this is perhaps the first social history based around a plant in South Africa. Plants are not quite historical actors in their own right, but their properties and potential help to shape human history. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBTB; WNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wits University Press South Africa
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868145300
ISBN
9781868145300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? Editor(s): Mangcu, Xolela. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; HBJH; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 130. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868145324
ISBN
9781868145324
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. South Africa's future is increasingly tied up with that of India. While trade and investment between the two countries is intensifying, they share long-standing historical ties and have much in common: apart from cricket, colonialism and Gandhi, both countries are important players in the global South. Editor(s): Hofmeyr, Isabel; Williams, Michelle. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1HFMS; HBJ; JPS; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868145386
ISBN
9781868145386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) is the most influential sociologist of our time. His works take in education, culture, sport, literature, painting, class, philosophy, religion, law, media, intellectuals, methodology, photography, universities, colonialism, kinship, schooling and politics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFM; HBJH; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 220 x 15. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wits University Press South Africa
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868145409
ISBN
9781868145409
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. In the twenty years of transitional and democratic politics in South Africa, Susan Booysen constantly traversed two worlds, as direct observer and analyst-researcher. Num Pages: 512 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JPF; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 171 x 240 x 30. Weight in Grams: 924.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wits University Press South Africa
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868145423
ISBN
9781868145423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Until the end of the First World War, urban growth in Johannesburg proceeded unevenly and haphazardly, but under the impact of a wave of militant struggles by black workers and in the context of the devastating impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; AJC; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868145447
ISBN
9781868145447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; DD; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Wits University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868145607
ISBN
9781868145607
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99

Paperback. Fight for Democracy is a penetrating and critical scrutiny of the ANC's treatment of the print media since the inception of democracy in 1994. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrated. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; JFD; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 365.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868145683
ISBN
9781868145683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardcover. Percival Kirby was one of the greatest South African musicologists and ethnomusicologists. Born in Scotland in 1887, after completing his studies at the Royal College of Music in London he came out to South Africa as the Music Organiser to the Natal Education Department. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; AVR; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 180. Weight in Grams: 998.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Wits University Press
Edition
Third edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868146055
ISBN
9781868146055
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.82

Paperback. Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto illustrates how this rapidly growing, underfunded but surprisingly effective institution found the niche that allowed it to exist, to provide medical care to a massive patient body and at times even to flourish in the apartheid state. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; MBP; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Wits University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868147472
ISBN
9781868147472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Helion & Company United Kingdom
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908916235
ISBN
9781908916235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 34.74

Hardcover. Series: African Histories and Modernities. Num Pages: 219 pages, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 1KBB; HBTB; JFSJ2; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319301853
ISBN
9783319301853
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Hardback. Editor(s): Heshmati, Almas. Series: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development. Num Pages: 246 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFG; KCB; KCG; KCM; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 537.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319304311
ISBN
9783319304311
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.93

Hardback. Num Pages: 138 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 1MBF; 3JJF; HBJF; HBJH; HBTB; HBWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
138
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319308241
ISBN
9783319308241
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.89

Hardback. Editor(s): Heshmati, Almas. Series: Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 25 colour illustrations, 10 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFG; JFFA; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 613.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319309804
ISBN
9783319309804
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.65

Hardback. Num Pages: 228 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 1KLSC; 1MBF; LBBM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319312163
ISBN
9783319312163
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.03

Hardback. Editor(s): Hesselberg, Jan. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 27 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFD; RNPG; RNT; TVB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 549.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319314976
ISBN
9783319314976
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.31

Hardcover. Series: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDR; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 421.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319318042
ISBN
9783319318042
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.39

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