The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey
by Hochschild, Adam
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670835390
- ISBN 13
- 9780670835393
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Synopsis
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.
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- Eve's Book Garden (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028946
- Title
- The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey
- Author
- Hochschild, Adam
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670835390
- ISBN 13
- 9780670835393
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1990
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- Friends of the Albany Library;
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