Richard D Ballard

A Spatial Land Ownership Database for South Africa: Feasibility Study

1865: America Makes War and Peace in Lincoln’s Final Year

In 1865 Americans faced some of the most important issues in the nation’s history: the final battles of the Civil War, the struggle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, the peace process, reconstruction, the role of freed slaves, the tragedy of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and the trials of the con...

The Unseen Terror: The French Revolution in the Provinces

From the fall of the Bastille to the rise of Napoleon, Paris was the stage for most of the greatest crises of the French Revolution. Indeed, for many historians, the Revolution was a distinctly Parisian phenomenon, restricted to the galleries of the Tuileries and the chambers of the Jacobin Club. Bu...

The Way of the Cross

The Way of the Cross has a long and much loved devotional history in the Catholic Church. From the earliest days of Christianity, pilgrims to Jerusalem were interested in visiting the places where the suffering and death of Jesus took place. The devotion of the Way of the Cross was conceived to hel...

Voices of Protest: Social Movements in Post-Apartheid South Africa

The socio-economic transformation of South Africa is necessary for the consolidation of its democracy. This can be fully realized only when poor people's voices are heard in the corridors of power. Voices of Protest documents the first post-apartheid initiatives of poor people to mobilize and organi...

A Childs War

In the 1940 London blitz, George Ryland, a skilled engineer, and his wife Edna lose the style of life it took them years of struggle to obtain when they are bombed out of the house they own in a pleasant suburb. The nostalgic story of their small son Alex is set in the apparent calm of Oxford. Alex ...

A New Dictionary of the French Revolution

The French Revolution was a huge, brutal yet inspiring phenomenon that changed global political thinking and action, and its echoes resound even in the twenty-first century. It was an intensely complex mix of events, concepts and individuals and A New Dictionary of the French Revolution is an invalu...

What The Saints Said About Heaven: 101 Holy Insights About Everlasting Life

Everyone hopes to go to heaven, but what do we really know about it? There are thrilling promises in Scripture but not an abundance of detail about the nature of heavenly existence. Another source of insight and hope can be found in the writings of the saints throughout history.What the Saints Said ...