Charles van Onselen is the author of several award-winning books, including The Fox and the Flies, Masked Raiders and The Seed is Mine, which was voted one of the hundred best books to come out of Africa in the 20th century and which won the Alan Paton Award in 1997. He has been elected to Visiting Fellowships at Cambridge, Harvard, Oxford and Yale universities and has been Research Professor in the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship (CAS) at the University of Pretoria for the past two decades.
12 หนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์โดย Charles van Onselen
Charles van Onselen: The Cowboy Capitalist
The Jameson Raid was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of South Africa in 1910. For more than a century, the fail …
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Charles Van Onselen: Showdown at the Red Lion
Johannesburg, South Africa, 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 Brigade’ b …
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Charles Van Onselen: The Cowboy Capitalist
The Jameson Raid of 1895–1896 was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of South Africa in 1910 and the advent of apa …
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Charles van Onselen: The Seed is Mine
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 Kas Maine and his neigh …
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Charles van Onselen: Night Trains
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 terms still large …
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Charles van Onselen: Fox and the Flies
At the end of the nineteenth century European pimps and ‘white slavers’ established a hugely successful global market for commercial sex and for three turbulent decades before the First World War, Jo …
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Charles van Onselen: Night Trains
This seminal book reveals how black labor was exploited in twentieth-century South Africa, the human costs of which are still largely hidden from history. It was the people of southern Mozambique, be …
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Charles van Onselen: Night Trains
This seminal book reveals how black labor was exploited in twentieth-century South Africa, the human costs of which are still largely hidden from history. It was the people of southern Mozambique, be …
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Charles van Onselen: Masked Raiders
Before the railway system linked South Africa’s major cities in the mid-1890s, the country was largely dependent on a horse-drawn economy. Diamonds from Griqualand West and gold from the Witwatersran …
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Charles van Onselen: Three Wise Monkeys
Volume 1 of Three Wise Monkeys explores the Portuguese colonisation of Mozambique, and the gradual transformation of the colony into a reservoir of cheap labour, first during the Atlantic slave trade …
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Charles van Onselen: Three Wise Monkeys
The Three Wise Monkeys trilogy culminates with a forensic examination of South Africa’s long struggle to suppress gambling, and especially lotteries. The opposition of the Calvinist churches – both A …
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Charles van Onselen: Three Wise Monkeys
Volume 2 of Three Wise Monkeys explores Catholic Mozambique’s role in the leisure economy of Protestant South Africa, as a place where bachelor miners and Randlords alike could project their fantasie …
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