Johannesburg Pioneer Journals 1888 1909
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Author |
: Maryna Fraser |
Publisher |
: Van Riebeeck Society, The |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 1985 |
ISBN-10 |
: 062009432X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780620094320 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis Johannesburg Pioneer Journals, 1888-1909 by : Maryna Fraser
Author |
: Chris Schoeman |
Publisher |
: Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages |
: 269 |
Release |
: 2015-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781770227927 |
ISBN-13 |
: 177022792X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Unknown Van Gogh by : Chris Schoeman
Much has been written about Vincent van Gogh and his tempestuous relationship with his brother Theo. But few people know that there was a third Van Gogh brother, Cornelis, who was raised in the Netherlands, but worked, married and died in South Africa. The son of a Protestant minister, Cor spent his youth in a series of small Dutch towns, with idyllic holidays walking in the countryside with his artist brother, before troubles and tragedies beset the Van Gogh family. In 1889, the twenty-two-year-old Cor sailed to South Africa, where he worked as an engineer on the gold mines and on the railways. In the Anglo-Boer War he joined the Boers, first as a railway engineer and later on commando in the Free State, where in 1900 he suffered a fate that echoed his famous brother’s tragic end. The Unknown Van Gogh recreates South Africa in the tumultuous last decade of the nineteenth century; reconstructs the personal story of a young immigrant from letters and other archival documents; and explores his relationship with his famous brother Vincent. With new insights based on original research, this book uncovers a figure who has been forgotten by history.
Author |
: Jennifer Speake |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 1425 |
Release |
: 2014-05-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135456634 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135456631 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Literature of Travel and Exploration by : Jennifer Speake
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Author |
: William Beinart |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 412 |
Release |
: 2007-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191566288 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191566284 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Environment and Empire by : William Beinart
European imperialism was extraordinarily far-reaching: a key global historical process of the last 500 years. It locked disparate human societies together over a wider area than any previous imperial expansion; it underpinned the repopulation of the Americas and Australasia; it was the precursor of globalization as we now understand it. Imperialism was inseparable from the history of global environmental change. Metropolitan countries sought raw materials of all kinds, from timber and furs to rubber and oil. They established sugar plantations that transformed island ecologies. Settlers introduced new methods of farming and displaced indigenous peoples. Colonial cities, many of which became great conurbations, fundamentally changed relationships between people and nature. Consumer cultures, the internal combustion engine, and pollution are now ubiquitous. Environmental history deals with the reciprocal interaction between people and other elements in the natural world, and this book illustrates the diverse environmental themes in the history of empire. Initially concentrating on the material factors that shaped empire and environmental change, Environment and Empire discusses the way in which British consumers and manufacturers sucked in resources that were gathered, hunted, fished, mined, and farmed. Yet it is also clear that British settler and colonial states sought to regulate the use of natural resources as well as commodify them. Conservation aimed to preserve resources by exclusion, as in wildlife parks and forests, and to guarantee efficient use of soil and water. Exploring these linked themes of exploitation and conservation, this study concludes with a focus on political reassertions by colonised peoples over natural resources. In a post-imperial age, they have found a new voice, reformulating ideas about nature, landscape, and heritage and challenging, at a local and global level, views of who has the right to regulate nature.
Author |
: Richard Tomlinson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2014-02-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317794233 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317794230 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Emerging Johannesburg by : Richard Tomlinson
Johannesburg is most often compared with Sao Paulo and Los Angeles and sometimes even with Budapest, Calcutta and Jerusalem. Johannesburg reflects and informs conditions in cities around the world. As might be expected from such comparisons, South Africa's political transformation has not led to redistribution and inclusive social change in Johannesburg. In Emerging Johannesburg the contributors describe the city's transition from a post apartheid city to one with all too familiar issues such as urban/suburban divide in the city and its relationship to poverty and socio-political power, local politics and governance, crime and violence, and, especially for a city located in Southern Africa, the devastating impact of AIDS.
Author |
: Gustaf De Vylder |
Publisher |
: Van Riebeeck Society, The |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0958411247 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780958411240 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Journal of Gustaf De Vylder by : Gustaf De Vylder
Author |
: R. Bright |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 2013-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137316578 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137316578 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chinese Labour in South Africa, 1902-10 by : R. Bright
This book explores the decision of the British Empire to import Chinese labour to southern Africa despite the already tense racial situation in the region. It enables a clearer understanding of racial and political developments in southern Africa during the reconstruction period and places localised issues within a wider historiography.
Author |
: Lady Anne Lindsay Barnard |
Publisher |
: Van Riebeeck Society, The |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0958411263 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780958411264 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cape Diaries of Lady Anne Barnard, 1799-1800 by : Lady Anne Lindsay Barnard
Author |
: Mariusz Lukasiewicz |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783031519475 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3031519477 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gold, Finance and Imperialism in South Africa, 1887–1902 by : Mariusz Lukasiewicz
Author |
: Brett Bennett |
Publisher |
: ANU Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2015-11-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781925022841 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1925022846 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Forestry and Water Conservation in South Africa by : Brett Bennett
This innovative interdisciplinary study focuses on the history, science, and policy of tree planting and water conservation in South Africa. South Africa’s forestry sector has sat—often controversially—at the crossroads of policy and scientific debates regarding water conservation, economic development, and biodiversity protection. Bennett and Kruger show how debates about the hydrological impact of exotic tree planting in South Africa shaped the development of modern scientific ideas and state policies relating to timber plantations, water conservation, invasive species control, and biodiversity management within South Africa as well as elsewhere in the world. Forestry and Water Conservation in South Africa shows how scientific research on the impact of exotic and native vegetation led to the development of a comprehensive national policy for conserving water, producing timber, and protecting indigenous species from invasive alien plants. Policies and laws relating to forests and water began to change in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a result of political and administrative changes within South Africa. This book suggests that the country’s contemporary policies towards timber plantations, guided by the National Water Act of 1998, need to be reconsidered in light of the authors’ findings. Bennett and Kruger also call for more interdisciplinary research and greater emphasis on integrated policies and management plans for forestry, invasive alien plants, water conservation, and biodiversity preservation.