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Book Lady Anne Barnard at the Cape of Good Hope 1797 1802

Download or read book Lady Anne Barnard at the Cape of Good Hope 1797 1802 written by Dorothea Fairbridge and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lady Anne Barnard at the Cape of Good Hope 1797 1802

Download or read book Lady Anne Barnard at the Cape of Good Hope 1797 1802 written by Dorothea FAIRBRIDGE and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lady Anne Barnard as the Cape of Good Hope  1797 1802     Illustrated by a Series of Sketches Made by Lady Anne Barnard

Download or read book Lady Anne Barnard as the Cape of Good Hope 1797 1802 Illustrated by a Series of Sketches Made by Lady Anne Barnard written by Dorothea FAIRBRIDGE and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paradise  the Castle and the Vineyard

Download or read book Paradise the Castle and the Vineyard written by Lady Anne Lindsay Barnard and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Anne Barnard lived in South Africa from 1797 to 1802, and she recorded life in the Cape and its hinterland with more interest and detail than any other writer of the period. She was official hostess of the colonial administration for the first two years, played an important role in the social life of Cape Town. Paradise, the Castle and the Vineyard is an abridged version of her diaries, and it is beautifully illustrated with her own drawings, paintings, and handwriting as well as pictures of the landmark homes she resided in (referred to in the title). The diaries are full of witty and insightful observations about the life and people of the Cape, including the plight of slaves (usually censored out of writings from the era) and the governor and his quarrelsome household. Margaret Lenta is emeritus professor and senior researcher at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa).

Book The Cape Diaries of Lady Anne Barnard  1799 1800

Download or read book The Cape Diaries of Lady Anne Barnard 1799 1800 written by Lady Anne Lindsay Barnard and published by Van Riebeeck Society, The. This book was released on 1999 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cape Diaries of Lady Anne Barnard  1799 1800  1800

Download or read book The Cape Diaries of Lady Anne Barnard 1799 1800 1800 written by Lady Anne Lindsay Barnard and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Defiance  The Extraordinary Life of Lady Anne Barnard

Download or read book Defiance The Extraordinary Life of Lady Anne Barnard written by Stephen Taylor and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major biography of eighteenth-century writer and socialite Lady Anne Barnard. Born in Scotland in 1750, Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society. She wrote one of the most popular ballads of her day, captivated Sir Walter Scott with her poetry, rubbed shoulders with the Prince of Wales, and dazzled Samuel Johnson with her repartee. Lady Anne’s charisma and talent were undeniable; she was well known as both a beauty and a wit. However, she was also seen as an eccentric—an artist defined by her defiance of convention. Lady Anne had romantic affairs with several prominent men, but she married none of them. She preferred to live independently—even traveling alone to Paris during the upheaval of the French Revolution. When she did marry, it was to an impoverished army officer many years her junior. The pairing scandalized polite society. Hounded by gossip, the couple escaped to the Cape Colony—England’s first African possession—where Lady Anne painted the vibrant landscapes and penned her memoirs. An indefatigable diarist, she proved herself one of the extraordinary chroniclers of the era. Stephen Taylor draws on Lady Anne’s private papers, including six volumes of her never-before-published memoirs, to construct a vivid biography of her remarkable life. Illustrated with Lady Anne’s own drawings as well as portraits by her contemporaries, Defiance offers a lively and wholly absorbing portrayal of a woman far ahead of her time.

Book Lady Anne

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  • Author : Antjie Krog
  • Publisher : Bucknell University Press
  • Release : 2017-01-11
  • ISBN : 1611488168
  • Pages : 125 pages

Download or read book Lady Anne written by Antjie Krog and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Anne: A Chronicle in Verse by Antjie Krog is the first English translation of an award winning book published in Afrikaans in 1989. It engages critically and creatively with a key moment of colonial history—the time Lady Anne Barnard spent at the Cape of Good Hope, from 1797 to 1802. Usually mentioned merely as a witty hostess of fabulous parties, Anne Lindsay Barnard, the daughter of a Scottish Earl and the wife of a colonial administrator, was an independent thinker and a painter and writer of genius. She left diaries, correspondence and watercolors documenting her experiences in this exotic land, the contact zone of colonizers and indigenous peoples. Antjie Krog acts as bard and chronicles an epic about this remarkable heroine’s life in South Africa, and intertwines it with life two hundred years later in the same country but now in the throes of anti-apartheid anger and vicious states of emergency. Krog’s powerful and eloquent bringing together of the past and the present, and the historical and the poetic embodies an experience that is as pertinent and compelling today in a democratic but still turbulent South Africa, as it is in the USA and other places where the intersections of race, identity, power, and language lie at the center of civic life.

Book South Africa a Century Ago

Download or read book South Africa a Century Ago written by Lady Anne Lindsay Barnard and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To the Fairest Cape

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  • Author : Malcolm Jack
  • Publisher : Bucknell University Press
  • Release : 2018-10-08
  • ISBN : 1684480000
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book To the Fairest Cape written by Malcolm Jack and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing the remote, southern tip of Africa has fired the imagination of European travellers from the time Bartholomew Dias opened up the passage to the East by rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. Dutch, British, French, Danes, and Swedes formed an endless stream of seafarers who made the long journey southwards in pursuit of wealth, adventure, science, and missionary, as well as outright national, interest. Beginning by considering the early hunter-gatherer inhabitants of the Cape and their culture, Malcolm Jack focuses in his account on the encounter that the European visitors had with the Khoisan peoples, sometimes sympathetic but often exploitative from the time of the Portuguese to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833. This commercial and colonial background is key to understanding the development of the vibrant city that is modern Cape Town, as well as the rich diversity of the Cape hinterland. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Book The Cambridge History of the British Empire

Download or read book The Cambridge History of the British Empire written by Eric Anderson Walker and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1963 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nation and Athen  um

Download or read book The Nation and Athen um written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Archaeology of Colonial Identity

Download or read book An Archaeology of Colonial Identity written by Gavin Lucas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores three key groups: The Dutch East India Company, the free settlers, and the slaves, through a number of archaeological sites and contexts. With the archaeological evidence, the book examines how these different groups were enmeshed within racial, sexual, and class ideologies in the broader context of capitalism and colonialism, and draws extensively on current social theory, in particular post-colonialism, feminism, and Marxism.

Book War Against Smallpox

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  • Author : Michael Bennett
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-06-18
  • ISBN : 1108882609
  • Pages : 437 pages

Download or read book War Against Smallpox written by Michael Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Bennett provides the first history of the global spread of vaccination during the Napoleonic Wars, offering a new assessment of the cowpox discovery and Edward Jenner's achievement in making cowpox inoculation a viable and universally available practice. He explores the networks that took the vaccine around the world, and the reception and establishment of vaccination among peoples in all corners of the globe. His focus is on the human story of the horrors of smallpox, the hopes invested in vaccination by medical men and parents, the children put arm-to-arm across the world, and the early challenges, successes and disappointments. He presents vaccination as a quiet revolution, genuinely emancipatory, but also the sharp end of growing state power. By the end of the war in 1815, millions of children had been vaccinated. The early success of the war against smallpox paved the way to further advances towards eradication.

Book English Historical Documents  1783 1832

Download or read book English Historical Documents 1783 1832 written by David Charles Douglas and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "English Historical Documents is the most comprehensive, annotated collection of documents on British (not in reality just English) history ever compiled. Conceived during the Second World War with a view to ensuring the most important historical documents remained available and accessible in perpetuity, the first volume came out in 1953, and the most recent volume almost sixty years later. The print series, edited by David C. Douglas, is a magisterial survey of British history, covering the years 500 to 1914 and including around 5,500 primary sources, all selected by leading historians Editors. It has over the years become an indispensable resource for generations of students, researchers and lecturers. EHD is now available in its entirety online. Bringing EHD into the digital age has been a long and complex process. To provide you with first-rate, intelligent searchability, Routledge have teamed up with the Institute of Historical Research (one of the research institutes that make up the School of Advanced Study, University of London http://www.history.ac.uk) to produce EHD Online. The IHR's team of experts have fully indexed the documents, using an exhaustive historical thesaurus developed by the Royal Historical Society for its Bibliography of British and Irish History. The sources include treaties, statutes, declarations, government and cabinet proceedings, military dispatches, orders, acts, sermons, newspaper articles, pamphlets, personal and official letters, diaries and more. Each section of documents and many of the documents themselves are accompanied by editorial commentary. The sources cover a wide spectrum of topics, from political and constitutional issues to social, economic, religious as well as cultural history."--[Résumé de l'éditeur].