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Review: Historicity in Mark Mathabane’s Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
Pictured is the edition this review is based off of. | Source Mark Mathabane. Kaffir Boy. New York: Free Press, 1986. 354. Mark Mathabane’s autobiographical novel Kaffir Boy breathes life into apartheid; the social movement many have only ever viewed as a...
A Critical Book Review: “Villains of All Nations” by Marcus Rediker
Rediker, Marcus. Villains of All Nations, Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. 240 pp. Marcus Rediker’s Villains of All Nations is undoubtedly an entertaining read for those interested in further...
Review: Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed
The Story of the Villiage of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There Philip Hallie. Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed. New York: Harper Perennial, 1979.303pp. Introduction Lest Innocent Blood be Shed by Philip Hallie is the story of “the safest place in Europe” during...
Early Modern Europe and Enlightened Thinkers
The underlying principles and assumptions demonstrated in the works of several enlightened thinkers indicate a homologous progression of thought which was unique to the early modern period. That being said, each enlightened thinker harbors his own interpretation of...
The Changes Experienced by a Hierarchial Society of Latin America
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Modernity and Democracy On Trial
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