The African Branch of Cambridge University Press has published the following Southern African Trade and Academic titles.
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Peter B. Best
University of Pretoria
With contributions by Isabelle Ansorge
University of Cape Town
Johann Lutjeharms
University of Cape Town
William Perrin
This book is the first stand-alone and definitive account of the cetaceans of the oceanic region from the equator to Antarctica, and between the longitudes of 20° W and 80° E - a region that includes almost two-thirds of the world's marine cetacean species. In the fascinating accounts of 51 species of whales and dolphins (and one porpoise), information for this region is comprehensively summarised, allowing Peter Best to give us the benefit of his extensive knowledge and of the wealth of unpublished information he has accumulated during his 40 years of studying these creatures. Approximately 100 illustrations have been created in colour for this book by world-renowned marine mammal illustrator Pieter Folkens. Colour photographs of the living animal portray the 'jizz' of each species and specific coloration or behavioural features.
Paperback - 9780521897105 |
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This third, extensively revised edition of The Mammals of
the Southern African Subregion contains detailed descriptions
of all mammals that occur naturally on the African mainland south
of the Cunene and Zambezi rivers, together with all mammals indigenous
to the subregion's coastal waters. The rapid accumulation of new
information resulting from mammal research in southern Africa,
together with radical taxonomic changes across all levels of mammalian
classification, have necessitated this new edition, which presents
the best and latest data accurately in one comprehensive volume
for use not only by scientists but also readers with an interest
in the natural history of southern Africa. This freshly designed
edition includes updated and redrawn maps and illustrations of
mammal prints as well as several new colour plates.
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This book is the first economic history of South Africa in over
60 years. Professor Charles H. Feinstein offers an authoritative
survey of 500 years of South African economic history from the
years preceding European settlements in 1652 through to the post-apartheid
era. He charts the early phase of slow growth, and then the transformation
of the economy as a result of the discovery of diamonds and gold
in the 1870s, followed by the rapid rise of industry in the wartime
years. The final chapters cover the introduction of apartheid
after 1948, and its consequences for economic performance. This
book is essential reading for students in economics, African history,
imperial history and politics.
Paperback - 9780521616416 |
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This definitive text, written by a highly-respected team of southern
African HIV experts, covers all aspects of HIV/AIDS in southern
Africa, from basic science to medicine, sociology, economics and
politics. The book begins with describing the evolving epidemic,
and captures its nature in one of the worst affected parts of
the world. A section on the science of the virus, covering its
structure and its diagnosis follows. HIV risk factors and prevention
strategies, focal population groups and the impact of AIDS in
all aspects of South African life are explored. The final sections
look at the treatment of HIV and AIDS, the politics of HIV/AIDS
treatment, mathematical modelling to extrapolate the potential
impact of treatment and finally, a discussion on the future of
HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
Paperback - 9780521616294 |
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This new book on the history of decolonisation and independence
in Africa deals with the historical process out of which Africa's
current position in the world has emerged. It reshapes our analysis
of the last 60 years of African history and moves away from even-centred
approaches and shallow left-right analysis.
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Research in Africa is now accepted as an integral part of global
archaeological studies. As well as providing archaeologists with
the oldest material, Africa is also widely recognised as the birthplace
of modern man and his characteristic cultural patterns. Archaeological
study of later periods provides unique and valuable evidence for
the development of African culture and society, while ongoing
research in Africa provides insights relevant to the interpretation
of the archaeological record in other parts of the world. In his
fully revised and expanded edition of a seminal archaeological
survey, David Phillipson presents a lucid and fully-illustrated
account of African archaeology from prehistory and the origins
of humanity to the age of European colonisation. The work spans
the entire continent from the Mediterranean to the Cape of Good
Hope and demonstrates the relevance of archaeological research
to the understanding of Africa today.
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This book reviews 50 years of research on politics in Africa.
It synthesises insights from different scholarly approaches and
offers an original interpretation of the knowledge accumulated
over the years. It discusses how research on African politics
relates to the study of politics in other regions. It focuses
on key issues, such as the legacy of a movement approach to political
change, the nature of the state, the economy of a location, the
policy deficit, the agrarian question, gender and politics and
ethnicity and conflict. It ends by reviewing what scholars agree
upon and what the accumulated knowledge offers as insights for
more effective political and policy reforms. This book is for
undergraduate and graduate courses in African and Comparative
Politics as well as development-oriented courses in Political
Science and related disciplines. It is also of great relevance
to governance and development analysts and practitioners in international
organisations.
Paperback - 9780521685320 |
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Some of the earliest human populations lived in southern Africa,
and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human
origins and on the emergence of modern humans. Peter Mitchell
has produced the first comprehensive modern synthesis of the sub-continent's
archaeology. His book offers a detailed overview of three million
years of southern African history.
Paperback - 9780521533843 |
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Some of the earliest human populations lived in southern Africa,
and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human
origins and on the emergence of modern humans. Peter Mitchell
has produced the first comprehensive modern synthesis of the sub-continent's
archaeology. His book offers a detailed overview of three million
years of southern African history.
Paperback - 9780521534574 |
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Zimbabwe's guerrilla veterans have burst into the international
media as the storm troopers in Mugabe's new war of economic liberation.
In this book, Norma Kriger gives the unfolding contemporary drama
a historical background, and shows continuities between the present
and past. Today, violence and a liberation war discourse continue
to be salient as Mugabe's party and its guerrilla veterans struggle
to maintain power through land invasions and purges of a new political
opposition. This study gives a critical review of guerrilla programmes
and the war-to-peace transitions literature, thus changing the
way we view post-conflict societies.
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This book is the first critical study of its subject, from colonial
and pre-colonial times to the present. Christopher Heywood discusses
selected poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions:
Khoisan, Nguni-Sotho, Afrikaans, English, and Indian. The discussion
includes over 100 authors and selected works, including poets
from Mqhayi, Marais and Campbell to Butler, Serote and Krog, theatre
writers from Boniface and Black to Fugard and Mda, and fiction
writers from Schreiner and Plaatje to Bessie Head and the Nobel
prize-winners, Gordimer and Coetzee. The literature is explored
in the setting of crises leading to the formation of modern South
Africa, notably the rise and fall of the Emperor Shaka's Zulu
kingdom, the Colenso crisis, industrialisation, the colonial and
postcolonial wars of 1899, 1914, and 1939, and the dissolution
of apartheid society. In Heywood's magisterial study, South African
literature emerges as among the great literatures of the modern
world.
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This is a comprehensive and wide-ranging guide to language and
society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language
groupings in the region in terms of pre-colonial and colonial
history and contact between the different language varieties.
Written by a team of leading researchers, all the chapters are
informed by the importance of socio-political history in understanding
questions of language.
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The Lion and the Springbok presents a unique account
of the dynamics and divergences of the 'uneasy special relationship'
of Britain and South Africa. From the bruising experience of the
South African War (18991902) to South Africa's withdrawal from
the Commonwealth in 1961, the authors chart this relationship
in all its political, economic, cultural and geostrategic aspects.
The perceptions each side had of the other after 1948 are examined
through representations in the media, and an epilogue considers
the reasons for the return of the 'New South Africa' to the Commonwealth
in 1994.
Paperback - 9780521537698 |
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South Africa is a particularly interesting case study of the
moral and economic challenges posed by a major AIDS pandemic.
As of 2003, an estimated 21.5% of South Africans aged 1559 was
HIV-positive, with over 1000 people dying each day of AIDS. The
AIDS epidemic in southern Africa has become a major public health
crisis that threatens economic development and social solidarity.
This important new study presents a history of AIDS policy in
South Africa and an expert analysis of the macroeconomic impact
of AIDS. It is a valuable resource for readers with an interest
in AIDS policy and the social and economic implications of the
pandemic.
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In Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa, Gibson and
Gouws investigate the degree to which the political culture of
South Africa the beliefs, values, and attitudes toward politics
held by ordinary people impedes or promotes the consolidation
of democratic reform. One set of values is of particular concern
for their research political tolerance. The overwhelming emphasis
throughout this book is on finding ways to enhance the willingness
of South Africans to 'put up with' their political enemies, to
allow open and widespread political competition, and to coexist
in their diversity.
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The Politics of Evil provides a new interpretation of
modern South African history, and a fresh approach to the study
of power, culture and resistance in the modern world. Encompassing
all of South Africa's history in his analysis, Clifton Crais examines
the formation of an authoritarian political order and the complex
ways people understood and resisted the colonial state. The author
explores evil as a moral and political problem and also looks
at the contemporary political transition taking place in the country.
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This book is a groundbreaking exploration of public opinion in
sub-Saharan Africa. Based on the Afrobarometer, a comprehensive
cross-national survey research project, it reveals what ordinary
Africans think about democracy and market reform, subjects on
which almost nothing is otherwise known. The authors find that
support for democracy in Africa is wide but shallow, and that
Africans feel trapped between state and market. Beyond multiparty
elections, people want clean and accountable government.
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The tragic conflict in Rwanda and the Great Lakes from 1994 to
1996 attracted the horrified attention of the world's media. This
troubling study shows that the post-genocide regime in Rwanda
was able to impose a simple, yet persuasive, account of Central
Africa's crises upon international commentators new to the region.
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Robben Island prison in South Africa held thousands of black
political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela, who opposed apartheid.
This book reconstructs the inmates' resistance strategies to show
how these men created a political and social order behind bars.
Survival was their first goal; challenging apartheid was their
true aim. So although Robben Island was designed to repress, it
was continually transformed by its political inmates into a site
of resistance.
Paperback - 9780521537681 |
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Many of the economic transformations in Africa have been as dramatic
as those in Eastern Europe. Yet much of the comparative literature
on transitions has overlooked African countries. This study of
Mozambique's shift to a market economy draws on a wealth of empirical
material, including archival sources, interviews, political posters,
and corporate advertisement, to reveal that the state is a central
actor in the creation of a market economy, despite the claims
of neo-liberals and their critics.
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