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Charles Van Onselen
On the night trains, the last stop was always hell. The price exacted from across the African sub-continent for South Africa’s stalled 20th century industrial revolution is - in human…
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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…
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Charles van Onselen
For two decades before a railway system linked southern Africa’s principal cities in the mid-1890’s, the world’s richest supplies of diamonds and gold were transported by coach and horses to…
Johannesburg 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…
First published 2020 by Protea Book House, South Africa – Title page verso.
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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…
A bold and innovative social history, The Seed Is Mine concerns the disenfranchised blacks who did so much to shape the destiny of South Africa. After years of interviews with…
Originally published in 2017 by Jonathan Ball Publishers, South Africa, a division of Media24 (Pty) Ltd.
