The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey
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Book
Description
History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that blends history and reportage. Hochschild looks at the tensions of modern South Africa through a dramatic prism: the pivotal nineteenth-century Battle of Blood River -- which determined whether the Boers or the Zulus would control that part of the world -- and its contentious commemoration by rival groups 150 years later. This incisive book offers an unusual window onto a society that remains divided. In his epilogue, Hochschild extends his view to the astonishing political changes that have occurred in the country in recent years -- and the changes yet to be made.
Publication Date
1990
Publisher
Viking
City
New York
State
NY
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | History | Nonfiction
Repository Citation
Hochschild , A. (1990). The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey. New York, NY: Viking.
