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  • THE QUEST FOR WEALTH WITHOUT WORK - Volume 3/Three Wise Monkeys
    Charles Van Onselen
    Three Wise Monkeys presents a startling new way of viewing the entangled, often hidden, economic, political and social dynamics that informed the rise of 20th-century South Africa, often at the expense of neighbouring Mozambique. It is history that transcends state boundaries to take the reader into previously uncharted domains of the recent past. This 3-volume work was publish...
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    17,99 €

  • THE MAKINGS OF AN AFRICAN ECONOMIC TRAGEDY - Volume 1/Three Wise Monkeys
    Charles Van Onselen
    Three Wise Monkeys presents a startling new way of viewing the entangled, often hidden, economic, political and social dynamics that informed the rise of 20th-century South Africa, often at the expense of neighbouring Mozambique. It is history that transcends state boundaries to take the reader into previously uncharted domains of the recent past. This 3-volume work was publish...
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    16,34 €

  • THROUGH THE TURNSTILES OF THE MIND - Volume 2/Three Wise Monkeys
    Charles Van Onselen
    Three Wise Monkeys presents a startling new way of viewing the entangled, often hidden, economic, political and social dynamics that informed the rise of 20th-century South Africa, often at the expense of neighbouring Mozambique. It is history that transcends state boundaries to take the reader into previously uncharted domains of the recent past. This 3-volume work was publish...
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    16,59 €

  • THE SEED IS MINE
    Charles Van Onselen
    A bold and innovative social history, The Seed is Mine concerns disenfranchised black people who did so much to shape the destiny of South Africa. After years of interviews with Kas Maine and his neighbours, employers, friends, and family – a rare triumph of collaborative courage and dedication – Charles van Onselen has recreated the entire life of a man who struggled to mainta...
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    30,89 €

  • The Cowboy Capitalist
    Charles Van Onselen
    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. Through a close look at the little-remembered figure of John Hays Hammond, a confidant of both Rhodes and Jameson, he discovers the American Old West on the South...
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    31,31 €

  • Showdown at the Red Lion (The Life and Time of Jack McLoughlin)
    Charles Van Onselen
    ’This enthralling saga of crime, passion, and betrayal, is a compelling portrait of one of empire’s great, unsung anti-heroes. The book is a scintillating achievement.’ - Jean Comaroff, Harvard UniversityJohannesburg was - and is - the Frontier of Money. Within months of its founding, the mining camp was host to organised crime: the African ’Regiment of the Hills’ and ’Irish Br...
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    22,46 €