History Matters: Selected Writings, 1970-2016 - Bill Nasson ( South African Interest)

History Matters: Selected Writings, 1970-2016 - Bill Nasson ( South African Interest)

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FIRST EDITION, Published by Penguin Books, 2016, hardcover, index, 286 pages, condition: new.

History Matters is an eloquent selection of writings over four decades by Bill Nasson, one of South Africas most popular and highly respected historians. The pieces in this compendium are lively and entertaining, written with wit, humour and a finely tuned sense of irony. Chapters cover the Anglo-Boer War, the two World Wars, cricket, District Six, schooldays and education, Spike Lee, Hollywood and history, Mandela and other political biographies, and a great many other topics. Resembling a pudding of spicy plums, this is a perfect book for anyone interested in South Africa and its history, and in a broader appreciation of tweaking the tail of life in the past.

Bill Nasson was born in Cape Town where he survived schooling and the trauma of adolescence before being educated in Britain at the universities of Hull, York and Cambridge. He has held visiting fellowships at Cambridge University, the Australian National University, the University of Illinois and the University of Kent in Canterbury. He lectured in economic history and history at the University of Cape Town for many years before moving to Stellenbosch University where he is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of History. An award-winning author, his numerous book publications include the acclaimed The War for South Africa, Britannias Empire, Springboks on the Somme, South Africa at War, 19391945, and WWI and the People of South Africa


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