Author: James ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Travels in the Interior of South Africa, Comprising 15 Years Hunting and Trading
Author: James ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Representing Africa
Author: John McAleerPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526118378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Southern Africa played a varied but vital role in Britain’s maritime and imperial stories: it was one of the most intricate pieces in the British imperial strategic jigsaw, and representations of southern African landscape and maritime spaces reflect its multifaceted position. Representing Africa examines the ways in which British travellers, explorers and artists viewed southern Africa in a period of evolving and expanding British interest in the region. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, contemporary travelogues and visual images, many of which have not previously been published in this context, this book posits landscape as a useful prism through which to view changing British attitudes towards Africa. Richly illustrated, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in British, African, imperial and exploration history, art history, and landscape and environment studies.
Sale-catalogues of Second-hand Books on Sale by Henry Sotheran & Co
Author: Sotheran, Henry and CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: The Spectator
Author: Mfecane Aftermath
Author: Carolyn HamiltonPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9781868142521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
A guide for interpreting the mfecane's role in history Was the mfecane a figment of historians' imagination as Julian Cobbing contends? How large a responsibility do Shaka and the Zulu people bear for the social turbulence in South-central and South-east Africa in the early decades of the 19th century? These are some of the issues explored in this collection, which is designed as a response to the radical critique of Dr. Cobbing and other scholars. The mfecane, suggests Cobbing, must be seen as a myth lying at the root of a set of interlinked assumptions and distortions that have seriously twisted our understanding of the main historical processes of late 18th- and early 19th-century Southern Africa. Contributors to this collection assess the implications of this critique for scholars from a range of disciplines, notably history, anthropology, archaeology, history of art and African languages. But the book is not only about the debate over Cobbing's work; it is also an indicator of the state of current scholarship in Southern Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries and, because it raises questions about the nature of sources and, indeed, about the nature of historical debate itself, it is also about historiography. This book should provide a useful guide for students starting out in this field, as well as a resource for established scholars seeking their way through the textual intricacies of varied editions and secondary texts that become the primary sources for historiographical debate.
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
Author: Mercantile Library of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
Author: ohne AutorPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846048054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.