Travels in Southern Africa in the Years, 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806

Travels in Southern Africa in the Years, 1803, 1804, 1805 and 1806
Author: Hinrich Lichtenstein
Publisher: Arkose Press
Total Pages: 882
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781343782716

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The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages

The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages
Author: Tomasz Kamusella
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2017-11-21
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1137015934

This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts and questions, including language and sociality, social and political history, multilingual government, and educational policies. In doing so, they present significant original research, ensuring that the work will remain a key reference point for the subject. This ambitious and wide-ranging edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of southern African languages, sociolinguistics, history and politics.

A History of South Africa

A History of South Africa
Author: Leonard Thompson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2014-04-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300206836

A magisterial history of South Africa, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present. Lynn Berat updates this classic text with a new chapter chronicling the first presidential term of Mbeki and ending with the celebrations of the centenary of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress in January 2012. “A history that is both accurate and authentic, written in a delightful literary style.”—Archbishop Desmond Tutu “Should become the standard general text for South African history. . . . Recommended for college classes and anyone interested in obtaining a historical framework in which to place events occurring in South Africa today.”—Roger B. Beck, History: Reviews of New Books

Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa

Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa
Author: Alan Barnard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1992-02-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780521428651

A study of the influence of environment on culture and social organization among the Khoisan, a cluster of southern African peoples, comprised of the Bushmen or San "hunters," the Khoekhoe "herders", and the Damara, (also herders).

Britain's Maritime Empire

Britain's Maritime Empire
Author: John McAleer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107100720

Analyses the critical role played by the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope in the development of the British Empire. Focusing on a region that connected the Atlantic and Indian oceans at the centre of a vital maritime chain linking Europe with Asia, the book re-examines and reappraises Britain's oceanic empire.

Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400–1948

Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400–1948
Author: Paul S. Landau
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2010-09-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139488260

Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400–1948 offers an inclusive vision of South Africa's past. Drawing largely from original sources, Paul Landau presents a history of the politics of the country's people, from the time of their early settlements in the elevated heartlands, through the colonial era, to the dawn of Apartheid. A practical tradition of mobilization, alliance, and amalgamation persisted, mutated, and occasionally vanished from view; it survived against the odds in several forms, in tribalisms, Christian assemblies, and other, seemingly hybrid movements; and it continues today. Landau treats southern Africa broadly, concentrating increasingly on the southern Highveld and ultimately focusing on a transnational movement called the 'Samuelites'. He shows how people's politics in South Africa were suppressed and transformed, but never entirely eliminated.

Representing Africa

Representing Africa
Author: John McAleer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526118378

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.