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Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Report of the Native Affairs Department for the years 1919 to 1921
Author: Report of the Native Affairs Department for the Year Ended...
Author: South Africa. Department of Native AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indigenous peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2430
Book Description
List of Union Publications Issued by the Government Printing and Stationery Department ...
Author: South Africa. Printing and Stationery DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Official Year Book of the Union and of Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate, and Swaziland
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Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
No. 1 contains "statistics mainly for the period 1910-1916."
The Finger of God
Author: Robert R. EdgarPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813941032
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
On the morning of May 24, 1921, a force of eight hundred white policemen and soldiers confronted an African prophet, Enoch Mgijima, and some three thousand of his followers. Called the Israelites, they refused to leave their holy village of Ntabelanga, where they had been gathering since early 1919 to await the end of the world. While the Israelites maintained they were there to pray and worship in peace, the white authorities viewed them as illegally squatting on land that was not theirs. After many months of fruitless negotiations, the South African government sent an armed force to Bulhoek, a village in the Eastern Cape, to expel them. In the event that has come to be known as the Bulhoek massacre, police armed with rifles, machine guns, and cannons killed nearly two hundred Israelites wielding knobkerries, swords, and spears. In The Finger of God, Robert Edgar reveals how and why the Bulhoek massacre occurred. Edgar asks: Why did Mgijima prophesize that the end of the world was imminent, and why did he summon his followers to Ntabelanga? Why did the South African government regard the Israelite encampment as a threat? Examining this clash between a government and a millenial movement, Edgar considers the Bulhoek massacre both as a signal event in South African history and as an example of similar conflicts worldwide.
Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs
Author: Canada. Department of Indian AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
The Native Problem in Africa
Author: Raymond Leslie BuellPublisher: New York : The Macmillan Company
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
California at War
Author: Diane M. T. NorthPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700626468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
World War I propelled the United States into the twentieth century and served as a powerful catalyst for the making of modern California. The war expanded the role of the government and enlarged the presence of private citizens’ associations. Never before had so many Californians taken such a dynamic part in community, state, national, and international affairs. These definitive events unfold in California at War as a complex, richly detailed historical narrative. Historian Diane M. T. North not only writes about the transformative battlefield and nursing experiences of ordinary Californians, but also documents how daily life changed for everyone on the home front—factory and farm workers, housewives and children, pacifists and politicians. Even before the United States entered the war, California’s economy flourished because its industrialized agriculture helped feed British troops. The war provided a boost to the faltering Hollywood film industry and increased the military’s presence through the addition of Army and Navy training camps and air fields, ship construction, contracts to local businesses, coastal defenses, and university-sponsored scientific research. In these stories, North traces the roots of California’s global stature. The war united Californians in common humanitarian goals as they supported war-related charities, funded the nation’s war machine, conserved food, and enforced rationing. Most citizens embraced wartime restrictions with patriotic zeal and did not foresee the retreat into suspicion, loyalty oaths, and unwarranted surveillance, all of which set the stage for the beginnings of the modern security state. California at War raises important questions about what happens when a nation goes to war. This book illuminates the legacy of World War I for all Americans.