ilość książek w kategorii: 1495
From Civilization to Segregation: Social Ideals and Social Control in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1934
ISBN: 9780821410745 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examines the social changes that took place in Southern Rhodesia after the arrival of the British South Africa Company in the 1890s. Summer s work focuses on interactions among settlers, the officials of the British South America Company and the administration, missionaries, humanitarian groups in Britain, and the most vocal or noticeable groups of Africans. Through this period of military conquest and physical coercion, to the later attempts at segregationist social engineering, the ideals and justifications of Southern Rhodesians changed drastically. Native Policy, Native...
This study examines the social changes that took place in Southern Rhodesia after the arrival of the British South Africa Company in the 1890s. Summer...
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233,87 zł |
Living the End of Empire: Politics and Society in Late Colonial Zambia
ISBN: 9789004209862 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Building on the foundational work of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, the essays contained in Living the End of Empire offer a nuanced and complex picture of the late-colonial period in Zambia. The present volume, based on untapped archival material and sources that have emerged in recent years, throws new light on some of the historical trajectories that the teleological gaze of nationalist scholars tended to ignore or belittle. By bringing to view the deep-rooted tensions underlying the Zambian nationalist movement, the painful dilemmas faced by chiefly and religious institutions,...
Building on the foundational work of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, the essays contained in Living the End of Empire offer a nuanced and com...
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237,01 zł |
Zululand - Its Traditions, Legends, Customs and Folk-Lore
ISBN: 9781446512616 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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170,76 zł |
Political Forgiveness
ISBN: 9781610976992 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Description: A timely look at how to combine reconciliation and justice in society after civil and political conflict. Endorsements: ""One of the finest of a new generation of theologians has written a mature reflection on political forgiveness that constitutes a genuine contribution to a new realm of ethical thought."" --Walter Wink, author, The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of the Man ""When unelected regimes move to pluralistic democracies should the new government forgive the wrongdoing of its predecessors? This important volume answers that question. . . . Anyone involved...
Description: A timely look at how to combine reconciliation and justice in society after civil and political conflict. Endorsements: ""One of the fine...
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130,73 zł |
Institutionalizing Elites: Political Elite Formation and Change in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature
ISBN: 9789004219229 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Francis expands and redefines the approach to the problematic of a comprehensive framework for the study of political elites through an interrogation of political elite formation in the African context of the Provincial Legislature of KwaZulu-Natal. The result is an empirically rich and detailed study of the realization, accumulation and exercise of institutionalized political power. Political elite agency shapes, enables and undermines political institutions and is dependent on a multiplicity of currencies including social and political capital and patterns of culture, respect...
In this book, Francis expands and redefines the approach to the problematic of a comprehensive framework for the study of political elites through an ...
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237,01 zł |
Frontiers: South African Archaeology Today
ISBN: 9780860542681 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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553,89 zł |
Papers in the Prehistory of the Western Cape, South Africa
ISBN: 9780860544258 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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629,11 zł |
The Emergence of Social and Political Complexity in the Shashi-Limpopo Valley of Southern Africa, AD 900 to 1300: Ethnicity, class and polity
ISBN: 9781407300290 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of this work is to explain the rise of social and political complexity in the area of the confluence of the Shashi and Limpopo Rivers in southern Africa between around AD 900 and 1300. I doing this, the author refinines the archaeological sequence of the area, in particular ceramic data, and applies and tests theoretical constructs relating to the relationships between ethnicity, class, social and political complexity and material culture. The theoretical emphasis of the study is on modelling ethnicity, class and social and political complexity at a more qualitative scale than...
The aim of this work is to explain the rise of social and political complexity in the area of the confluence of the Shashi and Limpopo Rivers in south...
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683,81 zł |
Stable Carbon Isotopes and Prehistoric Diets
ISBN: 9780860543763 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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266,69 zł |
Diving up the Human Past: Perspectives of maritime archaeology, with specific reference to developments in South Africa until 1996
ISBN: 9780860549833 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of this interesting study is to provide insight into some current thoughts pertaining to the field of maritime archaeology and to sketch certain developments which are in part focused on the region of South Africa and complemented with case studies on surveys and excavation of 17th century shipwrecks of the Dutch East India Company.
The aim of this interesting study is to provide insight into some current thoughts pertaining to the field of maritime archaeology and to sketch certa...
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362,42 zł |
The International Impact of the Boer War
ISBN: 9781902683195 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of specially commissioned essays seeks to put the Boer War (1899-1902) in its international context. Each chapter examines the perspective of one country (Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Portugal, Russia and the US) and is written by an authority on that country. The assesses how perceptions of British policy and the future of the British Empire were altered. The Anglophobia of many of the nations' press, the activites of pro-Boer organizations, and the shaping of public and parlimentary opinion are examined alongside the official articulation and practice of...
This collection of specially commissioned essays seeks to put the Boer War (1899-1902) in its international context. Each chapter examines the perspec...
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197,43 zł |
Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers: An enduring Frontier in the Caledon Valley, South Africa
ISBN: 9781841710617 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study looks in general at the interaction between hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists across a perceived frontier, and more specifically, at the southwards movement of Bantu-speaking agriculturalists and their relationship with hunter-gatherers south and west of the Caldeon Valley, from the 16th to 19th century AD. Theoretical and practical approaches are taken from the ethnographic record and are applied to the investigation of evidence for the processes of interaction, cooperation and hostility across the frontier zone: stone tools, faunal and plant remains and ceramics.
This study looks in general at the interaction between hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists across a perceived frontier, and more specifically, at th...
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198,30 zł |
The International Impact of the Boer War
ISBN: 9781902683188 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of specially commissioned essays seeks to put the Boer War (1899-1902) in its international context. Each chapter examines the perspective of one country (Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Portugal, Russia and the US) and is written by an authority on that country. The assesses how perceptions of British policy and the future of the British Empire were altered. The Anglophobia of many of the nations' press, the activites of pro-Boer organizations, and the shaping of public and parlimentary opinion are examined alongside the official articulation and practice of...
This collection of specially commissioned essays seeks to put the Boer War (1899-1902) in its international context. Each chapter examines the perspec...
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649,62 zł |
From Colonization to Democracy: A New Historical Geography of South Africa
ISBN: 9781860641763 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Colonisation to Democracy traces the development of modern South African society, establishing the geographical and historical context in which adaptation has occurred. Alan Lester identifies and explains the most important historical continuities in South Africa which have shaped present society. These include social groupings and their stratification, political institutions, the patterns of human geography, economic structure and external links and influences.
From Colonisation to Democracy traces the development of modern South African society, establishing the geographical and historical context in ...
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135,07 zł |
Native Life in South Africa: Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion
ISBN: 9780821409862 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1916 and one of South Africa's great political books, "Native Life in South Africa" was first and foremost a response to the Native's Land Act of 1913, and was written by one of the most gifted and influential writers and journalists of his generation. Sol T. Plaatje provides an account of the origins of this crucially important piece of legislation and a devastating description of its immediate effects.
First published in 1916 and one of South Africa's great political books, "Native Life in South Africa" was first and foremost a response to the Native...
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158,59 zł |
The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct
ISBN: 9781847189851 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is Conan Doyle's first, shorter, work on the Boer War, justifying Britain's role and involvement. He later wrote a longer book, The Great Boer War, on the same theme.
This is Conan Doyle's first, shorter, work on the Boer War, justifying Britain's role and involvement. He later wrote a longer book, The Great Boer Wa...
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43,71 zł |
The Migrant Farmer in the History of Cape Colony: 1657-1842
ISBN: 9780821410905 / Angielski / Twarda / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Petrus Johannes Van der Merwe wrote three of the most significant books on the history of South Africa before he was 35 years old. His trilogy, of which "The Migrant Farmer" is the first volume, has become a classic that no student of Cape colonial history of the seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth century can ignore. Van der Merwe was unique among Afrikaner historians in that he focused not on the single event known as the Great Trek, but on the greater migration, nearly three hundred years long, of peoples of Dutch, French and German descent out from the victualling station at Cape Town...
Petrus Johannes Van der Merwe wrote three of the most significant books on the history of South Africa before he was 35 years old. His trilogy, of whi...
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259,85 zł |
Gordian Knot: Apartheid and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order
ISBN: 9780199855612 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing more than one hundred years ago, African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois speculated that the great dilemma of the twentieth century would be the problem of "the color line." Nowhere was the dilemma of racial discrimination more entrenched-and more complex-than South Africa. Gordian Knot examines South Africa's freedom struggle in the years surrounding African decolonization, using the global apartheid debate to explore the way new nation-states changed the international community during the mid-twentieth century. At the highpoint of decolonization, South Africa's problems...
Writing more than one hundred years ago, African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois speculated that the great dilemma of the twentieth century would be t...
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321,41 zł |
Rhodesia File
ISBN: 9780901787217 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kwame Nkrumah intended to write on the Zimbabwean struggle. First published 1974, this book contains key documents from the file on Rhodesia which he opened after U.D.I. in 1965. The letters and papers, many of which are published for the first time here, show the thinking of Nkrumah on the problem of minority regimes in Africa. How accurate it was, as subsequent events have proved. A connecting narrative and chronology from 1887 have been added by the publishers.
Kwame Nkrumah intended to write on the Zimbabwean struggle. First published 1974, this book contains key documents from the file on Rhodesia which he ...
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228,77 zł |
The Other Zulus: The Spread of Zulu Ethnicity in Colonial South Africa
ISBN: 9780822352952 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1879, the British colony of Natal invaded the neighbouring Zulu kingdom. Large numbers of Natal Africans fought with the British against the Zulus, enabling the British to claim victory and, ultimately, to annex the Zulu kingdom. Less than thirty years later, in 1906, many of those same Natal Africans, and their descendants, rebelled against the British in the name of the Zulu king. In The Other Zulus, a thorough history of Zulu ethnicity during the colonial period, Michael R. Mahoney shows that the lower classes of Natal, rather than its elites, initiated the transformation in ethnic...
In 1879, the British colony of Natal invaded the neighbouring Zulu kingdom. Large numbers of Natal Africans fought with the British against the Zulus,...
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462,54 zł |