Colin Bundy

Nelson Mandela: pocket GIANTS (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'Colin Bundy has given us an incredible insight into the person of Mandela. What a man and what a gift Madiba was to the world.' - Desmond Tutu Nelson Mandela's place in history is secure: he was one of the best known prisoners in the world even before his election as the first president of post-apartheid South Africa; secondly, he became a global icon, an elder statesman, with a degree of moral authority matched by very few. Coming to terms with a dizzying sequence of roles, this biography explores Mandela's various identities - dashing young urbanite, charismatic nationalist politician, underground military commander and Black Pimpernel, tried, convicted, and a political prisoner for 27 years; on his release president of a democratic South Africa - and assesses these independently of his iconic, nigh-mythic status. This book revisits the well-known contours of Mandela's career, but resists hagiography: it outlines what he achieved, but also identifies aspects of his personality and politics that are far less familiar.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750963602
• Artikelnr.: 44361040

Autorenporträt

Colin Bundy is a historian: now retired, his academic career has been spent in the UK and his native South Africa. He served as Vice-Chancellor, University of the Witwatersrand, Principal of SOAS and most recently Principal of Green Templeton College, Oxford. As a scholar, he is best known for The Rise & Fall of a South African Peasantry. Co-author of Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa, in 2012 his pocket biography Govan Mbeki appeared, and his Short-changed? South Africa Since Apartheid is about to be published.