Masked Raiders: Irish Banditry in Southern Africa, 1890-1899 - Softcover

Van Onselen, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1485311608 ISBN 13: 9781485311607

Publisher: Protea Boekhuis, 2020

Synopsis

Masked Raiders follows the wild exploits of legendary brigands like the McKeone brothers and 'One Armed Jack' McLoughlin, who ravaged the subcontinent, from the mining towns of Barberton, Kimberley and Johannesburg, to the borders of Basotholand, Bechuanaland, Mozambique, and Rhodesia. With tales of heists, safecracking, illegal gold dealings, prison breaks, and hidden roadside treasure, the book reveals the potency of the highveld's 'criminal heroes.' Startling insights also reveal how the hidden grammar of brigandage informed political actions of the day, such as the Jameson Raid, and how the movement of bandits across the interior helped shape the borders of what was to become modern South Africa.

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About the Author

Charles van Onselen is one of South Africa's most widely respected historians and the acclaimed author of 'The Small Matter of a Horse' 'The Fox and the Flies' and 'The Seed is Mine' the latter of which won the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. A graduate of Rhodes University Grahamstown and St Antony's College Oxford he has published extensively in leading international journals devoted to historical studies and has been honoured with visiting fellowships at Harvard Yale Cambridge and Oxford. He is currently a Research Professor at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria.

Edition details

• Publisher: Protea Boekhuis
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1485311608
• ISBN 13: 9781485311607
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256