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Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa

Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa

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SKU 9781399810791 Categories Biographies & Memoirs, Products

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ONE FAMILY, FOUR CENTURIES, NINE EXTRAORDINARY LIVES

''Exploring the past, bringing it to vivid life with wonderful prose . . . Pedder writes with perspicacity and sensitivity . . . We need more books like this'' Observer

''Fascincating and...

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Product ID:	9781399810791
Product Form:	Hardback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Moederland
Subtitle:	Nine Daughters of South Africa
Authors:	Author: Cato Pedder
Page Count:	368
Subjects:	Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: historical, political & military, African history, Gender studies: women and girls, African history, Gender studies: women, Republic of South Africa
Description:	Select Guide Rating ONE FAMILY, FOUR CENTURIES, NINE EXTRAORDINARY LIVES ''Exploring the past, bringing it to vivid life with wonderful prose . . . Pedder writes with perspicacity and sensitivity . . . We need more books like this'' Observer ''Fascincating and engrossing'' Literary Review How did South Africa turn out the way it did? In Moederland - ''Motherland'', in Afrikaans - Cato Pedder takes us on an eye-opening journey across four centuries, tracing the country''s turbulent past and the rise and fall of apartheid (and her family''s charged legacy) through the lives of nine very different women. KROTOA is Khoikhoi translator to the newly arrived Dutch East India Company ANGELA, a former slave from Bengal, climbs the ladder of settler society ELSJE arrives from Germany aged 3, marries at 13, a mother at 15 ANNA, mistress of the Cape''s grandest estate, regains control from her violent husband MARGARETHA, uncompromising Afrikaner farmer, resists the abolition of slavery ANNA loads her family on an ox-wagon and treks into the interior to elude the British ISIE survives the Boer War to become wife of South Africa''s Prime Minister and ''Mother of the Nation'' CATO escapes to England and the Quakers as white supremacy mutates into apartheid PETRONELLA, returning to the Motherland, falls in love across the colour bar and risks everything to fight the system her grandfather set in motion.
Imprint Name:	John Murray Publishers Ltd
Publisher Name:	John Murray Press
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2024-04-25

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Weight	604 g
Dimensions	163 × 242 × 35 mm