Overview
History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that blends history and reportage. Hochschild looks at the tensions of modern South Africa through a dramatic prism: the pivotal nineteenth-century Battle of Blood River -- which determined whether the Boers or the Zulus would control that part of the world -- and its contentious commemoration by rival groups 150 years later. This incisive book offers an unusual window onto a society that remains divided. In his epilogue, Hochschild extends his view to the astonishing political changes that have occurred in the country in recent years -- and the changes yet to be made.
- | Author: Adam Hochschild
- | Publisher: Mariner Books
- | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2007
- | Number of Pages: 320 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0618758259
- | ISBN-13: 9780618758258
