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Author : Leo Weinthal
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 938 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway & River Route from 1887 to 1922 written by Leo Weinthal and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Commonwealth Society. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Select List of Publications in the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute Illustrating the Communications of the Overseas British Empire written by Royal Commonwealth Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Commonwealth Society. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Bibliographies written by Royal Commonwealth Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bibliographies written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Macdonald
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526123711
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The language of empire written by Robert Macdonald and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate about the Empire dealt in idealism and morality, and both sides employed the language of feeling, and frequently argued their case in dramatic terms. This book opposes two sides of the Empire, first, as it was presented to the public in Britain, and second, as it was experienced or imagined by its subjects abroad. British imperialism was nurtured by such upper middle-class institutions as the public schools, the wardrooms and officers' messes, and the conservative press. The attitudes of 1916 can best be recovered through a reconstruction of a poetics of popular imperialism. The case-study of Rhodesia demonstrates the almost instant application of myth and sign to a contemporary imperial crisis. Rudyard Kipling was acknowledged throughout the English-speaking world not only as a wonderful teller of stories but as the 'singer of Greater Britain', or, as 'the Laureate of Empire'. In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, the Empire gained a beachhead in the classroom, particularly in the coupling of geography and history. The Island Story underlined that stories of heroic soldiers and 'fights for the flag' were easier for teachers to present to children than lessons in morality, or abstractions about liberty and responsible government. The Education Act of 1870 had created a need for standard readers in schools; readers designed to teach boys and girls to be useful citizens. The Indian Mutiny was the supreme test of the imperial conscience, a measure of the morality of the 'master-nation'.
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Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book United Empire written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graeme Harper
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847142168
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism written by Graeme Harper and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together for the first time original work from international specialists, this book assesses the role and character of comedy and fantasy in colonial societies from India to Ireland, Australia to Cuba, Africa to North America. There are cross-cultural comparisons and consideration of both imperial responses and colonized resistance. The book deals with oral as well as written traditions, the history of comic and fantastic discourse, visual, theatrical and literary representations as well as historical and cultural accounts.
Author : Daniel R. Headrick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190281499
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Tentacles of Progress written by Daniel R. Headrick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-03-10 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This penetrating examination of a paradox of colonial rule shows how the massive transfers of technology--including equipment, techniques, and experts--from the European imperial powers to their colonies in Asia and Africa resulted not in industrialization but in underdevelopment. Examining the most important technologies--shipping and railways, telegraphs and wireless, urban water supply and sewage disposal, economic botany and plantation agriculture, irrigation, and mining and metallurgy--Headrick provides a new perspective on colonial economic history and reopens the debate on the roots of Asian and African underdevelopment.
Author : Jon Lunn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349139718
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Capital and Labour on the Rhodesian Railway System, 1888–1947 written by Jon Lunn and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-11-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book is the first in-depth history of the Rhodesian railway system. Covering the period 1888-1947, when the Rhodesian railway system was privately owned by Cecil Rhode's British South Africa Company, this book uses the Rhodesian railway system as a prism through which it refracts many dimensions of the imperial experience in central and southern Africa, ranging from the impulses underpinning the regional ambitions of Rhodes himself to the origins of black worker protest in the Rhodesias.
Author : Arthur Keppel-Jones
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077356103X
Total Pages : 693 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Rhodes and Rhodesia written by Arthur Keppel-Jones and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1983-11-01 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British South Africa Company and the irregularity of its financial and political operations are dealt with in detail. Keppel-Jones also discusses the development in the midst of the indigenous population of an alien white society and state, from their crude beginnings to their emergence in a form still recognizable today. The reader is led to conclude that by 1902 Southern Rhodesia was already set on the road that would lead to the upheavals of the second half of the twentieth-century. The author examines the racial consciousness and prejudice of the white society and addresses an important question: why did the imperial government grant a royal charter to the BSA Company? The facts show conclusively that the imperial government had little interest in Central Africa or care for its fate except when foreign competition appeared. Keppel-Jones also reveals the important role played by black troops employed by the Company in suppressing the rebellions of 1896-7. For opposite reasons, neither blacks nor whites have been willing to recognize this; on the other hand the habit of the 'men-on-the-spot' of making and carrying out decisions without regard to their superiors in London is a commonplace of imperial history. One of the main themes of the book is the tension between the unofficial imperialists, straining at the leash, and the Colonial Office, struggling to hold them back. Rhodes and Rhodesia is based on extensive use of public records, mainly in the Public Record Office, London, and the National Archives of Zimbabwe, of collections of private papers, and of contemporary published works.
Author : New York Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1022 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Author : Grant Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108210481
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book South Africa, Greece, Rome written by Grant Parker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have ancient Greece and Rome intersected with South African histories? This book canvasses architecture, literature, visual arts and historical memory. Some of the most telling manifestations of classical reception in South Africa have been indirect, for example neo-classical architecture or retellings of mythical stories. Far from being the mere handmaiden of colonialism (and later apartheid), classical antiquity has enabled challenges to the South African establishment, and provided a template for making sense of cross-cultural encounters. Though access to classical education has been limited, many South Africans, black and white, have used classical frames of reference and drawn inspiration from the ancient Greeks and Romans. While classical antiquity may seem antithetical to post-apartheid notions of heritage, it deserves to be seen in this light. Museums, historical sites and artworks, up to the present day, reveal juxtapositions in which classical themes are integrated into South African pasts.
Author : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Recent Geographical Literature, Maps and Photographs written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 740 pages
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Download or read book Recent Geographical Literature, Maps, and Photographs Added to the Society's Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leon de Kock
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004491325
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book South Africa in the Global Imaginary written by Leon de Kock and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning collection of essays about culture and identity was written from the perspective of post-apartheid South Africa. Voted best special issue of 2001 by the Council of Editors of Learned Journal.
Author : Martin Meredith
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 9781586486419
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Diamonds, Gold, and War written by Martin Meredith and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Furnishes a vivid history of the tumultuous period leading up to the 1910 founding of the modern state of South Africa, exploring how the discovery of vast diamond and gold deposits led to a fierce struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the region, as well as the repercussions of the conflict in terms of both sides, as well as for Africa's native peoples.
Author : Daniel R. Headrick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199996326
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Invisible Weapon written by Daniel R. Headrick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital instrument of power, telecommunications is and has always been a political technology. In this book, Headrick examines the political history of telecommunications from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of World War II. He argues that this technology gave society new options. In times of peace, the telegraph and radio were, as many predicted, instruments of peace; in times of tension, they became instruments of politics, tools for rival interests, and weapons of war. Writing in a lively, accessible style, Headrick illuminates the political aspects of information technology, showing how in both World Wars, the use of radio led to a shadowy war of disinformation, cryptography, and communications intelligence, with decisive consequences.
