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Book The Raid on the Transvaal by Dr  Jameson

Download or read book The Raid on the Transvaal by Dr Jameson written by P. E. Aston and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Raid on the Transvaal by Dr  Jameson

Download or read book The Raid on the Transvaal by Dr Jameson written by P. E. Aston and published by . This book was released on with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cowboy Capitalist

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  • Author : Charles van Onselen
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2018-04-20
  • ISBN : 0813941369
  • Pages : 812 pages

Download or read book The Cowboy Capitalist written by Charles van Onselen and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jameson Raid was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of South Africa in 1910. For more than a century, the failed revolution has been interpreted through the lens of British imperialism, with responsibility laid at the feet of Cecil Rhodes. Yet, the raid was less a serious attempt to overthrow a Boer government than a wild adventure with transnational roots in American filibustering. In The Cowboy Capitalist, renowned South African historian Charles van Onselen challenges a historiography of over 120 years, locating the raid in American rather than British history and forcing us to rethink the histories of at least three nations. Through a close look at the little-remembered figure of John Hays Hammond, a confidant of both Rhodes and Jameson, he discovers the American Old West on the South African Highveld. This radical reinterpretation challenges the commonly held belief that the Jameson Raid was quintessentially British and, in doing so, drives splinters into our understanding of events as far forward as South Africa’s critical 1948 general election, with which the foundations of Grand Apartheid were laid.

Book Dr  Jameson

Download or read book Dr Jameson written by George Seymour Fort and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Union Gleanings

Download or read book National Union Gleanings written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Aftermath of the Jameson Raid and American Decision Making in Foreign Affairs  1896

Download or read book The Aftermath of the Jameson Raid and American Decision Making in Foreign Affairs 1896 written by C Tsehloane Keto and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1980 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication.

Book The If Man

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  • Author : Chris Ash
  • Publisher : 30 Degrees South Publishers
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9781920143589
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The If Man written by Chris Ash and published by 30 Degrees South Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The famous poem by Rudyard Kipling is based on the life of Jameson, and the suffering he endured as a result of the doomed raid that he and his Rhodesian and Bechuanaland policemen carried out against Paul Kruger's Transvaal Republic in 1896. In this engaging biography ... Ash recounts the life of this colonial statesman known as 'Dr Jim' or simply 'The Doctor'. He was an enigmatic man: when he died The Times estimated that his astonishing personal sway over his followers was equalled only by that of Parnell, the Irish patriot. During the fervour of the South African diamond rush Jameson established a small medical practice in Kimberley in 1878; it was here that he met and forged a lifelong friendship with Cecil John Rhodes. Jameson's thirst for adventure, coupled with Rhodes's dream of expanding the British Empire from the Cape to Cairo, led - under Royal Charter to the British South Africa Company - to the occupation of Mashonaland in 1890, with Jameson having laid the groundwork in his political dealings with Lobengula, king of the Matabele. And so began Jameson's rollercoaster adventure: from Administrator of Mashonaland, to the 'invasion' of Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique), the Matabele War and the infamous 'Jameson Raid' and his subsequent trial and incarceration in London. Despite the raid, Jameson had a successful political life. He died on 26 November 1917 in London. His body was laid in a vault at Kensal Green cemetery where it remained until the end of the First World War. Ian Colvin wrote in 1923 that Jameson's body was then 'carried to Rhodesia and on the 22nd of May, 1920, laid in a grave cut in the granite on the top of the mountain which Rhodes had called 'The View of the World' (in the Matopos Hills near Bulawayo), close beside the grave of his friend.'"--Back cover.

Book The Raid on the Transvaal by Dr  Jameson  Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Raid on the Transvaal by Dr Jameson Classic Reprint written by P. E. Aston and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Raid on the Transvaal by Dr. Jameson The Gold discoveries of the Transvaal - The Partition of Africa - Matabeleland and Mashonaland - Their History and Disposition - Mr. Cecil J. Rhodes - The Concessions - The Formation and the Constitution of the British South Africa Company - Khama, King of the Bamangwatos - The Mashonaland Pioneers - The March to Salisbury - Mr. F. C. Selous - The Boer Trek - The Progress of Rhodesia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Jameson Raid

Download or read book The Jameson Raid written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Africa

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  • Author : Harvard University. Library
  • Publisher : Cambridge, Mass., Harvard U. Library
  • Release : 1965
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 798 pages

Download or read book Africa written by Harvard University. Library and published by Cambridge, Mass., Harvard U. Library. This book was released on 1965 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Widener Library Shelflist

Download or read book Widener Library Shelflist written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Looker on in London

Download or read book A Looker on in London written by Mary Hannah Krout and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Botswana Safari Guide

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  • Author : Chris McIntyre
  • Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
  • Release : 2024-11-08
  • ISBN : 1804692239
  • Pages : 596 pages

Download or read book Botswana Safari Guide written by Chris McIntyre and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2024-11-08 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, thoroughly updated sixth edition of Bradt’s Botswana Safari Guide remains the only full-blown, standalone guide to one of Africa’s most popular and rewarding safari destinations. This is the sole guide to focus on Botswana’s key safari locations: the Okavango Delta, Chobe National Park and the Northern Kalahari. Botswana’s wilderness is pristine, a virtue underpinned by governmental commitment to sustainable tourism. The Okavango Delta’s permanent waters attract year-round wildlife, including all the ‘big five’. Outside the Delta, this English-speaking country offers tremendous variety in landscapes, from the arid Kalahari to lush forests. Riverine areas harbour spectacular herds of elephants and buffalo, as well as mighty predator populations. Dusty savannahs attract hardier game such as oryx and springbok. On Makgadikgadi’s great salt pans, zebras gather in huge congregations after rain. Birdwatching is brilliant throughout. Then there’s Botswana’s rich history, from the ancient rock paintings at the Tsodilo Hills to Stone Age arrowheads on the Makgadikgadi Pans. Bradt’s Botswana Safari Guide offers detailed descriptions of many lodges, from traditional tented camps to those offering five-star luxury and top-class cuisine, plus detail on what animals occur where, enabling you to select the optimum approach. With this book’s comprehensive GPS co-ordinates and detailed maps, independent travellers can drive themselves around. But perhaps you prefer bespoke mobile safaris with a private guide? Either way, take a night drive to see creatures of the dark: genets and hunting leopards. For a different feel, explore rivers on gentle motorboat cruises, including on multi-day trips, or get closer to the water in a traditional mokoro (dug-out canoe), with a poler escorting you along shallow waterways. Or seek out a specialist walking camp for the excitement of bush walks – when meerkats might even pose atop your head for a great lookout. And why not use this book’s advice to book-end trips by visiting Livingstone (Zambia) and the Victoria Falls? Written and updated by Chris and Susie McIntyre, experts on all things Africa, Bradt’s Botswana Safari Guide is the definitive companion to discovering this thrilling destination.

Book Diversity and Division in Medicine

Download or read book Diversity and Division in Medicine written by Anne Digby and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an innovative investigation of pluralism in health care. Using both extensive archival material and oral histories it examines relationships between indigenous healing, missionary medicine, and 'western' biomedicine. The book includes the different regions within South Africa although focusing in most detail on the Cape, the earliest area of white settlement. In a wide-ranging survey the division in medicine between 'western' and indigenous medicine is analysed through an exploration of the evolving practices of healers, missionaries, doctors and nurses. The book considers the extent to which there was a strategic crossing of boundaries in the construction of hybrid practices by these practitioners, and the extent to which patients pursued health by sampling diverse care options. Starting with missionary penetration during the early nineteenth century, the volume outlines interventions by the colonial state in medicine and public health, and the continued resilience of indigenous healing in the face of this. The book ends by relating past to present in scrutinising the legacy of historical structures - including those of the apartheid state - for current health care, and in briefly discussing the huge challenges that the HIV/Aids pandemic poses in impacting on them. The book thus provides an inclusive history of medicine for the 'New' South Africa.

Book Churchill as Peacemaker

Download or read book Churchill as Peacemaker written by Lee H. Hamilton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Churchill's actions as a peacemaker and peacekeeper.

Book The Edinburgh Review

Download or read book The Edinburgh Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ruling Elite

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deanna Spingola
  • Publisher : Trafford Publishing
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1466918578
  • Pages : 781 pages

Download or read book The Ruling Elite written by Deanna Spingola and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. government, complicit with the well-connected corporations, since the so-called Civil War, continues to wage war and destruction. Lincoln's revolutionary war, supported by Marx and Engels, caused at least 618,222 and perhaps as many as 700,000 deaths, including about 50,000 Confederate civilians. Soldiers who were fighting, dying and killing during that war were in training for future wars. If Americans could kill fellow citizens, then they would use force against foreign citizens, in behalf of the government. That war foreshadowed the devastating global warfare that followed with the Spanish American War, two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, the First Gulf War and the current wars in the Middle East. They do not include the bombings in the Baltic and elsewhere or the CIA's covert warfare wherein millions of people died. In the First World War, soldiers killed 9,911,000 people in action, and wounded 21,219,500 people, while 7,750,000 people were missing in action for a total of 38, 880,500. In the Second World War, there were over 24,000,000 military deaths and 49,000,000 civilian deaths totaling 73,000,000 deaths, not including the number of wounded or missing. That is 82,911,000 deaths in two world wars. The real question is WHY?