The leading opposition organizations in South Africa, the African National Congress and Pan-African Congress, ... in 1961, because it would not abandon, or modify, apartheid.40 South Africa was not the only problem in southern Africa.
Sometimes it took her by surprise, like the afternoon she stepped outside during a gale and her mother found her as the sun was setting, two miles down the towpath and halfway up a tree. Under the velvet my body jerked ...
Pat Thane challenges conventional interpretations of Britain's past based on stark contrasts, like the dull, conservative 1950s versus the liberated 'swinging sixties', and explores the key themes of nationalisms, the rise and fall of the ...
One night a boy who comes to be called Thomas Parry is taken from his family, caught up in a comprehensive unraveling of what had been a united kingdom.
The Act of Union, hastily introduced in the aftermath of civil war, ensured that Ireland entered the nineteenth century still divided, but no longer a kingdom.
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A highly realistic portrait of a world that doesn't exist, but which bears odd, unsettling resemblances to our own, this is fiction of supreme originality and accomplishment.
A highly realistic portrait of a world that doesn't exist, but which bears odd, unsettling resemblances to our own, this is fiction of supreme originality and accomplishment.