Author: Robert RossPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
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The Cambridge History of South Africa Vol. II
Author: Robert RossThe Cambridge History of South Africa:
Author: Robert RossPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780511851995
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 695
Book Description
This book surveys South African history from the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late nineteenth century to the first democratic elections in 1994. Written by many of the leading historians of the country, it pulls together four decades of scholarship to present a detailed overview of South Africa during the twentieth century. It covers political, economic, social, and intellectual developments and their interconnections in a clear and objective manner. This book, the second of two volumes, represents an important reassessment of all the major historical events, developments, and records of South Africa and will be an important new tool for students and professors of African history worldwide, as well as the basis for further development and research.
The Cambridge History of South Africa
Author: Robert RossPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521869836
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
This book surveys South African history from the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late nineteenth century to the first democratic elections in 1994. Written by many of the leading historians of the country, it pulls together four decades of scholarship to present a detailed overview of South Africa during the twentieth century. It covers political, economic, social, and intellectual developments and their interconnections in a clear and objective manner. This book, the second of two volumes, represents an important reassessment of all the major historical events, developments, and records of South Africa and will be an important new tool for students and professors of African history worldwide, as well as the basis for further development and research.
The Cambridge History of South Africa: Volume 1, From Early Times to 1885
Author: Carolyn HamiltonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108791991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reflecting on South Africa's achievement of majority rule, this book takes a critical and searching look at the country's past. It presents South Africa's past in an objective, clear, and refreshing manner. With chapters contributed by ten of the best historians of the country, the book elaborately weaves together new data, interpretations, and perspectives on the South African past, from the Early Iron Age to the eve of the mineral revolution on the Rand. Its findings incorporate new sources, methods, and concepts, for example providing new data on the relations between Africans and colonial invaders and rethinking crucial issues of identity and consciousness. This book represents an important reassessment of all the major historical events, developments, and records of South Africa - written, oral, and archaeological - and will be an important new tool for students and professors of African history worldwide.
The Cambridge History of Africa
Author: J. D. FagePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521215923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
After the prehistory of Volume I, Volume II deals with the beginnings of history from 500 B.C. to A.D. 1050.
The Cambridge History of South Africa: Volume 2, 1885–1994
Author: Robert RossPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316025675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1377
Book Description
This book surveys South African history from the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand in the late nineteenth century to the first democratic elections in 1994. Written by many of the leading historians of the country, it pulls together four decades of scholarship to present a detailed overview of South Africa during the twentieth century. It covers political, economic, social and intellectual developments and their interconnections in a clear and objective manner. This book, the second of two volumes, represents an important reassessment of all the major historical events, developments and records of South Africa and will be an important new tool for students and professors of African history worldwide, as well as the basis for further development and research.
The Cambridge History of Africa
Author: J. D. FagePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521225052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
This seventh volume in The Cambridge History of Africa examines the period 1905-40 in African history.
The Cambridge History of South African Literature
Author: David AttwellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316175138
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1451
Book Description
South Africa's unique history has produced literatures in many languages, in both oral and written forms, reflecting the diversity in the cultural histories and experiences of its people. The Cambridge History offers a comprehensive, multi-authored history of South African literature in all eleven official languages (and more minor ones) of the country, produced by a team of over forty international experts, including contributors from all of the major regions and language groups of South Africa. It will provide a complete portrait of South Africa's literary production, organised as a chronological history from the oral traditions existing before colonial settlement, to the post-apartheid revision of the past. In a field marked by controversy, this volume is more fully representative than any existing account of South Africa's literary history. It will make a unique contribution to Commonwealth, international and postcolonial studies and serve as a definitive reference work for decades to come.
The Cambridge History of the British Empire
Author: Eric Anderson WalkerPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Prayer, providence and empire
Author: Joseph HardwickPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526135418
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
European settlers in Canada, Australia and South Africa said they were building ‘better Britains’ overseas. But their new societies were frequently threatened by devastating wars, rebellions, epidemics and natural disasters. It is striking that settlers turned to old traditions of collective prayer and worship to make sense of these calamities. At times of trauma, colonial governments set aside whole days for prayer so that entire populations could join together to implore God’s intervention, assistance or guidance. And at moments of celebration, such as the coming of peace, everyone in the empire might participate in synchronized acts of thanksgiving. Prayer, providence and empire asks why occasions with origins in the sixteenth century became numerous in the democratic, pluralistic and secularised conditions of the ‘British world’.