The Land Wars: The Dispossession of the Khoisan and Amaxhosa in the Cape Colony, Paperback - John Laband

Perhaps the most explosive issue in South Africa today is the question of land ownership. The central theme in this country's colonial history is t...

In this riveting new book, John Laband, pre-eminent historian of the Zulu Kingdom, tackles some of the questions that swirl around the assassinatio...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Punic Wars, then keep reading...The Punic Wars between 264 BCE and 146 BCE were a series of ...

A shocking massacre in 2019 sparks a probing investigation into the strange, violent history of a polygamist Mormon outpost in MexicoPublisher: WW ...

In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Jus...

Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for NonfictionNamed a Top Ten Best Book of 2020 by the Washington Post and Publishers Weekly and a New Yo...

Reducere. In the bestselling tradition of In the Heart of the Sea, The Colony, "an impressively researched" (Rocky Mountain News) account of the history of A...

Reducere. DescriptionMao Zedong's land reform campaigns comprise a critical moment in modern Chinese history, and were crucial to the rise of the CCP. In Lan...

This book provides the first discussion of the most steadfast supporter of parliament in Wales during the British Civil Wars (1642-9), who was even...

Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provok...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Africa and the Kingdom of Kush, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one b...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Africa and the Kingdom of Kush, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one b...

Reducere. DescriptionThrough the institution of the Zulu monarchy, the distinguished historian John Laband has written a riveting account of the whole sweep ...

A collection of essays about Land art, one of the most important artistic movements of our times.

Contributor(s): Author: Nancy S. KimHow do we make the judgments that inform our lives? Is there any way of consciously removing bias from the choi...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Description"My brother officers. Are they human?" Thus reads the first journal entry of twenty-three-year-old John Verney, graduate of Eton and Oxf...

More than fifty years on, The Fat of the Land remains an important and inspiring book and retains its power to make us think carefully about our ow...

Reducere. When he left his Spanish base one spring day in 218 B.C. with his 100, 000-man army of mercenaries, officers, and elephants, Hannibal was launching...

An exploration of the relationship between possession and legalization across Indonesia, and how people navigate dispossession

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John WennerstenEastern Branch Press is pleased to announce the new paperback edition of John R. Wennersten's The Oyster War...

Reducere. This compelling interdisciplinary history of an Anishinaabe community at the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota offers a subtle and sophisticated...

'Extraordinarily imaginative . . . every one of these stories moved me' SIGRID NUNEZ; an exceptional short story collection set in conflict zones i...

Reducere. Are you frustrated or mystified by the Canadian Football League's apparent inability to restart during the pandemic, despite evidence of how other ...

Reducere. The period between the American Revolution and the middle nineteenth century dramatically changed New York State and the Iroquois. Upstate metropol...

Part the veil between the worlds and connect to the ancient magick of land spirits, Faeries, and dragons.

Reducere. In May 1607, English settlers stepped off their ship in North America. They were about to start the first permanent English settlement in North Ame...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast o...

DescriptionCrossing the remote, southern tip of Africa has fired the imagination of European travellers from the time Bartholomew Dias opened up th...

Reducere. In the summer of 1967, nineteen-year-old Brenda Joyce Holland disappeared. She was a mountain girl who had come to Manteo to work in the outdoor dr...

Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland. Their success rested partly on their being ke...

John Ashdown-Hill, whose research was instrumental in the discovery of Richard III's remains, offers a meticulous and engaging insight into the fam...

Reducere. Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681, 790 to just 45, 594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, h...

Reducere. The 1890s was a decade of deep and widespread progressive thinking about how the ills of late-Victorian society might be amended. One group of Chri...

The Jacobite Wars is a detailed exploration of the Jacobite military campaigns of 1715 and 1745, set against the background of Scottish political, ...

The Adventurers for Irish land transformed England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, laying the foundations of the Br...

DescriptionAs early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying ...

Covers a fascinating, but neglected conflict. The Jewish Maccabean revolt and the brief Jewish independence under the Hasmonean dynasty.

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): John B. ThompsonNumber of pages: 528Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 45Cover type: Paperback / softb...

A translation from the Latin of one of the most famous and enduring stories of western Christendom, the Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis, written ...

An invaluable guide for professionals, landowners and users of land in Scotland.

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

In More Stories of the Rich and Famous: Aiken's Winter Colony in the Gilded Age, the reader is placed in the action as witness to the high and low ...

Reducere. Combining archaeological, historical, ethnographic, and environmental data, Land of the Tejas represents a sweeping, interdisciplinary look at Texa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John PradosFrom its founding in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency has been discovered in the m...

Reducere. In the Great Lakes region of the nineteenth century, mixed bloods were a class of people living within changing indigenous communities. As such, th...

Reducere. DescriptionWhy are American cities, suburbs, and towns so distinct? Compared to European cities, those in the United States are characterized by lo...

Covering the fundamentals, science, history, and analysis of clues, The Handy Forensic Science Answer Book: Reading Clues at the Crime Scene, Crime...

The epic story of the world's last subsistence whalers