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Book Legacies of Violence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Mason
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2016-12-01
  • ISBN : 1785334379
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Legacies of Violence written by Robert Mason and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether in the form of warfare, dispossession, forced migration, or social prejudice, Australia’s sense of nationhood was born from—and continues to be defined by—experiences of violence. Legacies of Violence probes this brutal legacy through case studies that range from the colonial frontier to modern domestic spaces, exploring themes of empathy, isolation, and Australians’ imagined place in the world. Moving beyond the primacy that is typically accorded white accounts of violence, contributors place particular emphasis on the experiences of those perceived to be on the social periphery, repositioning them at the center of Australia’s relationship to global events and debates.

Book Challenging the Monolingual Mindset

Download or read book Challenging the Monolingual Mindset written by John Hajek and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume challenges the monolingual mindset by highlighting how language-related issues surround us in many different ways, and explores the tensions that can develop in managing and understanding multilingualism. The book features analysis and discussion on the use of languages across a range of contexts, including post-migration settlement, policy, education, language contact and intercultural communication.

Book The Land Wars

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Laband
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
  • Release : 2020-07-15
  • ISBN : 1776095006
  • Pages : 495 pages

Download or read book The Land Wars written by John Laband and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the most explosive issue in South Africa today is the question of land ownership. The central theme in this country’s colonial history is the dispossession of indigenous African societies by white settlers, and current calls for land restitution are based on this loss. Yet popular knowledge of the actual process by which Africans were deprived of their land is remarkably sketchy. This book recounts an important part of this history, describing how the Khoisan and Xhosa people were dispossessed and subjugated from the time that Europeans first arrived until the end of the Cape Frontier Wars (1779–1878). The Land Wars traces the unfolding hostilities involving Dutch and British colonial authorities, trekboers and settlers, and the San, Khoikhoin, Xhosa, Mfengu and Thembu people – as well as conflicts within these groups. In the process it describes the loss of land by Africans to successive waves of white settlers as the colonial frontier inexorably advanced. The book does not shy away from controversial issues such as war atrocities committed by both sides, or the expedient decision of some of the indigenous peoples to fight alongside the colonisers rather than against them. The Land Wars is an epic story, featuring well-known figures such as Ngqika, Lord Charles Somerset and his son, Henry, Andries Stockenström, Hintsa, Harry Smith, Sandile, Maqoma, Bartle Frere and Sarhili, and events such as the arrival of the 1820 Settlers and the Xhosa cattle-killing. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand South Africa’s past and present.

Book Trauma and Attachment in the Kindertransport Context

Download or read book Trauma and Attachment in the Kindertransport Context written by Iris Guske and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is the result of an interdisciplinary oral history research project, which was carried out at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. It focuses on the Kindertransport, the British rescue operation saving 10,000 predominantly German-Jewish children from Nazi Germany, and is based on in-depth case studies of five child survivors of the Holocaust. Looking at human development over the life cycle as mediated by intervening trauma was at the heart of the project, which examined the making and breaking of a child's close ties to significant others, processes of identity formation under acculturative stress as well as the creation and recall of traumatic memories. The study is thus one of the few in the field of attachment research which sheds light on the lifelong influence which early attachment has on coping with massive cumulative trauma. The former child refugees' narratives are enriched by letters, diaries, or articles written by them and their (host) families as well as by interviews conducted with family members and friends. Consequently, we can look at individual lives and collective destinies from more than one perspective as we are provided with rich, multi-layered accounts of people's whole-life trajectories. While each Holocaust survivor's developmental story is unique, it is, however, linked to the others' by the common experience of negotiating an identity between two countries, cultures, and religions against the background of unparalleled political upheavals, and as such also sheds light on, and offers ways out of, the traumata suffered in present-day contexts of enforced migration and displacement.

Book Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History

Download or read book Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History written by James Pettifer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History: Contesting the Waters tells the story of Psarades, a lakeside village in Macedonian Greece on the shores of the Prespa lake. This village, which is in many ways a completely typical Greek settlement and yet remains unconventional in its way of life, embodies the many contradictions of modern history and in exploring its roots James Pettifer and Miranda Vickers skilfully uncover the wider social, cultural and political history of this lake region. Drawing from oral testimonies and attentive to the construction of national histories, this book considers how the development of international borders, movement of people and role of national identities within imperial borderlands shaped Macedonia today. What is more, by centering the lakes and making use of an innovative environmental historical methodology, Pettifer and Vickers offer the first environmental history of this multi-ethnic borderland region shared by Greece, North Macedonia and Albania. The result is a nuanced and sophisticated transnational account of Macedonia from prehistory to the 21st century which will be essential reading for all Balkan scholars.

Book The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa

Download or read book The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa written by Robert Ross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the detailed narrative of the Kat River Settlement, which was located on the border between the Cape Colony and the amaXhosa in the Eastern Cape of South Africa during the nineteenth century. The settlement created a fertile landscape in the valley and developed a political theology of great political and racial importance to the evolution of the Cape and of South Africa as a whole.

Book The Macedonian national question in Greece in the documents of the Communist Party of Greece 1918 1940

Download or read book The Macedonian national question in Greece in the documents of the Communist Party of Greece 1918 1940 written by Ireneusz Adam _lupkov and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .What this book essentially offers us is a clear and concise after-the-fact account of the decisive role of the Communist Party of Greece in the tragic fate of the Macedonian people in the first half of the 20th century in Aegean Macedonia. --Professor Michael Seraphinoff

Book Correspondence Relative to His Military Operations in Kaffraria  Until the Termination of the Kafir War  and to His Measures for the Future Maintenance of Peace on that Frontier  and the Protection and Welfare of the People of South Africa

Download or read book Correspondence Relative to His Military Operations in Kaffraria Until the Termination of the Kafir War and to His Measures for the Future Maintenance of Peace on that Frontier and the Protection and Welfare of the People of South Africa written by George Cathcart (Hon. Sir, K.C.B.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Edges of War

Download or read book The Edges of War written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index to the Annexures and Printed Papers of the House of Assembly  and Also to the Principal Resolutions Adopted  and to the Bills and Printed Select Committee and Commission Reports  1854 1897

Download or read book Index to the Annexures and Printed Papers of the House of Assembly and Also to the Principal Resolutions Adopted and to the Bills and Printed Select Committee and Commission Reports 1854 1897 written by Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Parliament. House and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soldiers and Settlers in Africa

Download or read book Soldiers and Settlers in Africa written by Stephen M. Miller and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits some of the most significant guerrilla struggles of the late 19th century, all set in Africa, and remind readers, in light of current events, the difficulties involved in engaging in this type of conflict.

Book The Skeleton Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Kelly
  • Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
  • Release : 2023-06-22
  • ISBN : 0749030658
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book The Skeleton Man written by Jim Kelly and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridgeshire hamlet of Jude's Ferry is a lonely, forgotten spot. Requisitioned decades earlier by the Ministry of Defence for military training, one of its few claims to fame is that in its entire thousand-year history, it never recorded a single crime. But when a Territorial Army exercise is held amongst the ruins, a skeleton is found hanging in a bricked-up cellar, a noose round the neck. It seems that the ghostly village may hide many secrets and local newspaper reporter Philip Dryden is soon on the case. Then a man, pulled unconscious from the river at nearby Ely, claims to have lost his memory, yet reacts with startled fear to the name Jude's Ferry ...

Book Through the Chequered Path

Download or read book Through the Chequered Path written by Pamela M. Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the 59 English settlers led by William Howard which helped found Grahamstown, Cape Province, South Africa. Includes genealogical information about their families.

Book Magna Britannia   The county palatine of Chester

Download or read book Magna Britannia The county palatine of Chester written by Daniel Lysons and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Magna Britannia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Lysons
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1810
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1210 pages

Download or read book Magna Britannia written by Daniel Lysons and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: