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A comprehensive and definitive history of Zimbabwe over the last 600 years, from the highly acclaimed and bestselling African historian Martin Meredith

The revised and fully updated edition of the seminal, sweeping history of post-colonial Africa.

A comprehensive and definitive history of Zimbabwe over the last 600 years, from the highly acclaimed and bestselling African historian Martin Meredith

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A sweeping, provocative and very timely new history of Africa seen through the context of wealth.

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An sweeping history of the making of South Africa by the bestselling and acclaimed author of THE STATE OF AFRICA. The prize was great - not just land, but the riches it held, in the form of diamonds and gold. What became a country called South Africa was, until 1910, a vast and untamed land where great fortunes could be made (and lost), where great battles were fought (and lost), and where great men had their reputations forged, or dashed, or ...

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Sinds de tijd van de farao s is Afrika benijd om zijn rijkdommen. De piramiden, symbolen van welvaart, verbijsterden de rest van de wereld. Eeuwenlang deden legendes over de schatten van Afrika de ronde, en ze trokken onderzoekers en veroveraars aan. Ook Afrikaans land was geliefd, de Romeinen verbouwden graan in Noord-Afrikaanse kolonies om de inwoners van Rome te voeden. Een ander geliefd handelsartikel waren slaven, de afgelopen eeuwen zijn...

A sweeping, provocative and very timely new history of Africa seen through the context of wealth

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An epic biography of post-colonial Africa, and illuminating insight into its current devastating problems, by one of its most authoritative scholars

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Based on significant new research and filled with atmospheric detail, this history makes palpable the cost of greed to Africa's native peoples, and explains the rise of the virulent nationalism that eventually had taken over South Africa.

An illuminating history of one of the earth's most magnificent creatures--and a passionate plea to save it from extinction

It provides new perspective and insights into the man and his times. . . . [Meredith] is particularly good in recounting the parallel rise and inevitable clash of white Afrikaner and black African nationalism in this century . ..." - The Washington Post "Meredith paints an insider's canvas of recent South African history as well as an epic tale of a freedom fighter." - San Francisco Chronicle "[R]evealing insights, particularly into the contra...