Author: William BellinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Diary of a Working Man (William Bellingham) in Central Africa, December, 1884, to October, 1887
Author: William BellinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Diary of a Working Man (William Bellingham) in Central Africa, December, 1884, to October, 1887
Author: William BellinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
The Diary of a Working Man Central Africa
Author: William BellinghamThe diary of a working man in Central Africa, December, 1884, to October, 1887. Edited by J. Cooke Yarborough
Author: William BellinghamThe Winds of History
Author: Andreas ZemanPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110765055
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II vol 7
Author: Peter J KitsonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000561283
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.
Travellers in Africa
Author: Timothy YoungsPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152612372X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness.
The Steamer Parish
Author: Charles M. GoodPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226302822
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
In the mid-1800s, a group of High Anglicans formed the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA). Inspired by Dr. David Livingstone, they felt a special calling to bring the Church, education, and medical care to rural Africans. To deliver services across a huge, remote area, the UMCA relied on steamer ships that were sent from England and then reassembled on Lake Malawi. By the mid-1920s, the UMCA had built a chain of mission stations that spread across four hundred miles. In The Steamer Parish, Charles M. Good Jr. traces the Mission's history and its lasting impact on public health care in south-central Africa-and shows how steam and medicine, together with theology, allowed the Mission to impose its will, indelibly, on hundreds of thousands of people. What's more, many of the issues he discusses-rural development, the ecological history of disease, and competition between western and traditional medicine-are as relevant today as they were 100 years ago.
Eastern Africa.
Author: Publisher: Michael Graves-Johnston
ISBN: 9780955422713
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
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