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Product Description: In 1977, Johnson's best selling How Long Will South Africa Survive? offered a controversial and highly original analysis of the survival prospects of apartheid. Now, after more than two decades of the ANC in government, he believes the question must be posed again...read more

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9781849045599 | Hurst & Co Ltd, November 1, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In 1977, Johnson's best selling How Long Will South Africa Survive?

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Product Description: After decades of cultural and political turmoil, Nelson Mandela's inauguration as president of South Africa in 1994 seemed to usher in an age of peaceful, rational change. But, as R. W. Johnson recounts in his sweeping history, this was not to be...read more

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9781590204108 | Overlook Pr, November 24, 2010, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The universal jubilation that greeted Nelson Mandela¹s inauguration of South Africa in 1994 and the banishment of apartheid is one of the most thrilling, hopeful stories in the modern era.
9780713995381 | Gardners Books, April 2, 2009, cover price $44.10 | About this edition: The universal jubilation that greeted Nelson Mandela's inauguration as president of South Africa in 1994 and the process by which the nightmare of apartheid had been banished is one of the most thrilling, hopeful stories in the modern era: peaceful, rational change was possible and, as with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the weight of an oppressive history was suddenly lifted.

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9781468303315 | Overlook Pr, December 31, 2012, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: After decades of cultural and political turmoil, Nelson Mandela's inauguration as president of South Africa in 1994 seemed to usher in an age of peaceful, rational change.

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Product Description: Scholars from all over the world contributed to the Festschrift volumes presented as a tribute to Thomas Hodgkin on his sixtieth birthday. This book contains a selection from those contributions, reflecting the wide scope of Hodgkin's own interests, work and influence in the field of African and Tiers Monde studies...read more
By R. W. Johnson (editor)

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9780521101998 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 18, 2008), cover price $59.99 | About this edition: Scholars from all over the world contributed to the Festschrift volumes presented as a tribute to Thomas Hodgkin on his sixtieth birthday.

Africa is the cradle of mankind and the first traces of modern man come from South Africa. But it was economic problems and the end of the Cold War, which finally finished apartheid and released Nelson Mandela in 1990. The author delivers frank judgements both on the apartheid years and government by the ANC elite.

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9780753821008 | New edition (Phoenix, April 1, 2006), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Africa is the cradle of mankind and the first traces of modern man come from South Africa.

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Product Description: Rare book: Price in USD

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9788483066331 | Debate Editorial, September 30, 2005, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Rare book: Price in USD

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Product Description: This book is a collection of essays by prominent thinkers in South Africa on the currency of the term and conceptions of liberalism in various sectors of South African society since 1994. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Libby Husemeyer (editor), R. W. Johnson (editor) and David J. Welsh (editor)

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9780195716849 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 19, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This book is a collection of essays by prominent thinkers in South Africa on the currency of the term and conceptions of liberalism in various sectors of South African society since 1994.

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Product Description: South Africa's first-ever democratic electoral contest was one of the most significant global events of the decade. From the ashes of a repressive, segregated, and racist state emerged—miraculously and relatively free of bloodshed—a multi-racial and potentially compassionate new nation...read more
By R. W. Johnson (editor) and Lawrence Schlemmer (editor)

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9780300063912 | Yale Univ Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: South Africa's first-ever democratic electoral contest was one of the most significant global events of the decade.

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Product Description: This is a major, definitive, landmark study of the young volcanoes of eastern Australia and parts of New Zealand. It deals with the rock types and origin of the volcanoes as well as the inclusions of the upper mantle and lower-crustal rocks found in the volcanic deposits...read more
By R. W. Johnson (compiler)

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9780521380836 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 24, 1989, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This is a major, definitive, landmark study of the young volcanoes of eastern Australia and parts of New Zealand.

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Based on a non-biased assessment of all available information on the 1983 Soviet shootdown of Korean Airlines flight 007, this controversial study challenges the Reagan administration's version of the event

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9780140094749 | Reprint edition (Select Penguin, December 1, 1987), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Based on a non-biased assessment of all available information on the 1983 Soviet shootdown of Korean Airlines flight 007, this controversial study challenges the Reagan administration's version of the event

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Presents evidence that the Korean airliner shot down by the Soviet Union was on an American intelligence mission

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9780670812097 | Viking Pr, June 1, 1986, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Presents evidence that the Korean airliner shot down by the Soviet Union was on an American intelligence mission

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Product Description: Great Britain's historic position during times of economic recession.

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9780333367865 | Salem House Academic Division, July 1, 1985, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Great Britain's historic position during times of economic recession.

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9780333274170 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 19, 1981, cover price $189.00

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9780333274187 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 19, 1981, cover price $49.99

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9780521079488 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1971, cover price $59.95

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