Tom Vinnicombe's life was an exciting one for he lived in stirring times. He spent his childhood in Pietermaritzburg and after the Anglo-Zulu War and Majuba he trekked over the Drakensberg. With his wife, Rachel, and his growing family he went to the gold-fields, but later moved from growing town to growing town building Gothic churches for the Dutch Reformed congregations of the Highveld. His disgust at the Jameson Raid made him become a burgher of the Transvaal. But, the Anglo-Boer War divided his loyalties and he struggled to remain neutral rather than take up arms against his former country. Eventually, he had to leave the Republic and joined the Natal guides with bullers' advancing forces. He risked being executed for treason by taking food to his family, but his Boer neighbours helped him to escape. This adventure, like many of the happenings of his eventful and colourful life, is recorded in robust verse.

Vinnicombe's Trek: a Family Chronicle of the Time of the Zulu and Boer Wars

Currey, R.N.

Biographies & Memoirs

James Currey (Publishers) Ltd

Almost every anti-colonial struggle in the 20th century was led by an army of guerrillas, and no such struggle has succeeded without cooperation between the guerrillas and the local peasantry. This book examines what such 'cooperation' meant in the context of Zimbabwe's war of independence between 1966 and 1980 when hundreds of thousands of peasants provided the guerrillas with practical help and support. But throughout the country scores of spirit mediums also gave active support to the resistance, and with their help the scale of the war expanded into an astonishing act of collaboration between ancestors and their descendants, the past and the present, the living and the dead.  North America: University of California Press

Guns and Rain: Guerrillas and Spirit Mediums in Zimbabwe

Politics & Social Sciences

Lan, David

Politics & Government

This text takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of women and gender issues in the Caribbean. Olive Senior, using her imaginative skills as a poet, has written a readable books based on a substantial academic examination of women's lives and work in fourteen countries of the Caribbean. In addition she uses examples from literature and popular culture, adn the voices of the women themselves. Caribbean: ISER, University of the West Indies

Working Miracles: Women of the English-speaking Caribbean

Senior, Olive

Social Sciences

In this reader the editors have brought together a range of established sociology pieces, as well as selections from more recent work in the growing body of Caribbean sociological literature. General introductory sections review the development of Caribbean sociology, social theory, research and methodology; later sections explore the traditional themes of social stratification, ethnicity, culture and identity, women and gender, and education. Finally, emerging areas of research are covered, with chapters on religious beliefs, violence, labour relations and social change.

Caribbean Sociology: Introductory Reader

Barrow, Christine

Reddock, Rhoda

South Africa Belongs to Us: a History of the ANC

Meli, Francis

This volume examines just how successful community-based conservation approaches have been in their twin objectives of conserving African environments and improving rural livelihoods.

African Wildlife & Livelihoods: The Promise & Performance of Community Conservation

Business & Money

Hulme, David

Murphree, Marshall

Economics

A collection of essays which spans the fields of Caribbean and Atlantic World slavery, history and historiography, human and physical geography, archaeology and cultural studies. Leading scholars of slavery and post-slavery societies, bring their research into a global, cross-cultural focus. This Pan-Caribbean, multi-theme volume should be of interest to students on courses in Caribbean and Atlantic World History. The essays examine economic activity, labour history, domestic slavery, labour resistance and rebellion from the 17th to the 20th-century, and include essays on emancipation and wider diasporic issues.

Working Slavery, Pricing Freedom: The Caribbean and the Atlantic World

Verene A. Shepherd

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