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  • - Moving Mozambican Miners to and from the Witwatersrand Mines, 1902-1955
    by Charles Van Onselen
    £25.49

  • - The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper 1894-1985
    by Charles Van Onselen
    £24.49

    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 maintain his family in a world dedicated to enriching whites and impoverishing blacks, while South Africa was tearing them apart.

  • - John Hays Hammond, the American West and the Jameson raid
    by Charles Van Onselen
    £25.49

    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 African Highveld. This radical reinterpretation challenges the commonly held belief that the Jameson Raid was quintessentially British and, in doing so, drives splinters into our understanding of events as far forward as South Africa's critical 1948 general election, with which the foundations of Grand Apartheid were laid.

  • - The life and time of Jack McLoughlin
    by Charles Van Onselen
    £18.99

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