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Book Rangers In London 1960 1971

Download or read book Rangers In London 1960 1971 written by Jerry 'J' Silverman and published by Jerry Silverman. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rangers In London is the story of the nine matches between 1960 and 1971 when Britain and the World’s most domestically successful football club with the greatest and most fervent support travelled south from Glasgow to the Capital city. Almost every game seems to have thrown up something amazing or special. From the first European Cup tie played in London to a match described by the legendary and equally reticent Spurs manager, Bill Nicholson as the greatest game on earth. Alex Ferguson’s Rangers debut at Arsenal, QPR’s Rodney Marsh assaulting two players on the pitch and a teenager whisked from work in Glasgow in the morning to play in goal against a team of internationals and a world cup winner in the evening at Tottenham. And we best not forget Rangers appearances at Chelsea for the man they called Chopper either and at Highbury for a gentleman who at his peak was quite possibly the best goalkeeper in Europe. And much more… Unashamedly nostalgic and so many great stories, histories and characters to recall, celebrate and write about. In a more modest way, we try to chart the development of football at Ibrox and in London, on and off the field at a time when football was beginning to become more sophisticated, commercial and international. There’s a bit of sociology too, as we look at the emergence of football hooliganism, skinheadism and wider societal cultures in and around football at that time. Does what go around, come around with a slightly different twist? I’ll let the reader decide. But I hope you’ll enjoy taking in these matches with me, and get the same pleasure as the devoted thousands and perhaps you were one, who ‘followed on’ to London with Rangers. Win, lose or draw.

Book Political Power and Colonial Development in British Central Africa 1938 1960s

Download or read book Political Power and Colonial Development in British Central Africa 1938 1960s written by Alan H. Cousins and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the late colonial history of Zambia and Malawi, which between 1953 and 1963 were part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Although there were many links in their history and between their populations, the two territories (British protectorates under Colonial Office control) contrasted greatly in power structures, in their economies, and in their development. Europeans living in Northern Rhodesia, with a power base in the mining economy, were able to establish a dominant position in the territory after the Second World War. By the 1950s it looked as though they would have, with Southern Rhodesian Europeans, a long hegemony, gaining independence from Britain as a new Dominion, which would mean control over both Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland through the Federation. Thus, white ethnicity and ideology are essential factors in this book relating to the struggle for power from just before the Second World War up to the 1960s. However, crises in 1959 and 1960 led to the collapse of the Federation. A second focus is on issues of social and economic development. For Africans in Nyasaland, and in rural parts of Northern Rhodesia, there was a relatively weak economy in this period, a pattern of limited cash crop production, while many people became caught up in labour migration, subordinate to powerful European-dominated economic forces within southern Africa. This meant that colonial policies aimed at rural development were fundamentally flawed. The book also looks at the actual nature of rural economic change (as opposed to colonial policies) and discusses alternative visions of the future which were put forward. The argument is put that historians have often concentrated on the activities of the main nationalist movements in Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, seeing them as bringing progress away from colonialism and towards independence. Here there is an attempt to draw out the complexities of life, and a variety of responses in the colonial situation, progress coming in a number of forms, but not always being achieved.

Book General History of Africa

    Book Details:
  • Author : International Scientific Committee for the drafting of a General History of Africa
  • Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
  • Release : 1985-12-31
  • ISBN : 9231017136
  • Pages : 889 pages

Download or read book General History of Africa written by International Scientific Committee for the drafting of a General History of Africa and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 1985-12-31 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of UNESCO's most important publishing projects in the last thirty years, the General History of Africa marks a major breakthrough in the recognition of Africa's cultural heritage. Offering an internal perspective of Africa, the eight-volume work provides a comprehensive approach to the history of ideas, civilizations, societies and institutions of African history. The volumes also discuss historical relationships among Africans as well as multilateral interactions with other cultures and continents.

Book The Royal Navy and the Slave Trade

Download or read book The Royal Navy and the Slave Trade written by Raymond C. Howell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal Navy and the Slave Trade, first published in 1987, offers a detailed analysis of the Royal Navy’s slave trade suppression on the East Coast of Africa – an area often neglected in studies of the campaigns against the slavers. It traces the naval impact on the Arab slave trade from Zanzibar dominions and the political implications of that involvement. The naval contribution to the broader ‘Imperial’ debate is also considered. It breaks new ground by dealing with naval operations off East Africa and by presenting an analysis of the interaction of the various Imperial officials in the region, and the subsequent development of British policy.

Book Africa Under Colonial Domination 1880 1935

    Book Details:
  • Author : Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa
  • Publisher : London : Heinemann ; Berkeley, Calif., U.S.A. : University of California Press
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN : 9780520039186
  • Pages : 896 pages

Download or read book Africa Under Colonial Domination 1880 1935 written by Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa and published by London : Heinemann ; Berkeley, Calif., U.S.A. : University of California Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Africa was partitioned and colonized by the Europeans. After military conquest came the commercial exploitation of the wealth of Africa. The intensity of resistance to colonization varied from one region to another, but a new economic and social system linked with colonization was put in place, bringing about unprecedented demographic and political change."--Publisher's description.

Book Britain s Imperial Administrators  1858 1966

Download or read book Britain s Imperial Administrators 1858 1966 written by A. Kirk-Greene and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-02-24 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's famous overseas civil services - the Colonial Administrative Service, the Indian Civil Service and the Sudan Political Service - no longer exist as a major and sought-after career for Britain's graduates. In this detailed study the history of each service is presented within the framework of the need to administer an expanding empire. Close attention is paid to the methods of recruitment and training and to the socio-educational background of the overseas administrators as well as to the nature of their work. The prestigious incumbents of Government House are revealingly examined. The impact of decolonisation on overseas officials and the kinds of 'second careers' which they took up are documented. This authoritative narrative history is enlivened by recourse to Service lore and anecdotes.

Book The Internment of Aliens in Twentieth Century Britain

Download or read book The Internment of Aliens in Twentieth Century Britain written by David Cesarani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays reveal the role of British intelligence in the roundups of European refugees and expose the subversion of democratic safeguards. They examine the oppression of internment in general and its specific effect on women, as well as the artistic and cultural achievements of internees.

Book Unreasonable Histories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher J. Lee
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2015-02-20
  • ISBN : 0822376377
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book Unreasonable Histories written by Christopher J. Lee and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa—contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia—from the 1910s to the 1960s. Drawing on a spectrum of evidence—including organizational documents, court records, personal letters, commission reports, popular periodicals, photographs, and oral testimony—Lee traces the emergence of Anglo-African, Euro-African, and Eurafrican subjectivities which constituted a grassroots Afro-Britishness that defied colonial categories of native and non-native. Discriminated against and often impoverished, these subaltern communities crafted a genealogical imagination that reconfigured kinship and racial descent to make political claims and generate affective meaning. But these critical histories equally confront a postcolonial reason that has occluded these experiences, highlighting uneven imperial legacies that still remain. Based on research in five countries, Unreasonable Histories ultimately revisits foundational questions in the field, to argue for the continent's diverse heritage and to redefine the meanings of being African in the past and present—and for the future.

Book British Sport  Local histories

Download or read book British Sport Local histories written by Richard William Cox and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

Book Bembaland Church

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Garvey
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9789004099579
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Bembaland Church written by Brian Garvey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the development of the Roman Catholic Church in Bembaland (North Eastern Zambia) from its missionary foundations in 1891 to the eve of national independence.

Book British Sport   A Bibliography to 2000

Download or read book British Sport A Bibliography to 2000 written by Richard Cox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

Book Twentieth century Western Writers

Download or read book Twentieth century Western Writers written by and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1982 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists writers of western fiction, with a biography, a bibliography of the writer's works, and a critical essay on each writer. Sometimes comments by the author himself are included.

Book The Western Genre

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  • Author : John Saunders
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2019-09-10
  • ISBN : 0231502869
  • Pages : 123 pages

Download or read book The Western Genre written by John Saunders and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western Genre: From Lordsburg to Big Whiskey offers close readings of the definitive American film movement as represented by such leading exponents as John Ford, Howard Hawks, and Sam Peckinpah. In his consideration of such iconic motifs as the Outlaw Hero and the Lone Rider, John Saunders traces the development of perennial aspects of the genre, its continuity and, importantly, its change. Representations of morality and masculinity are also foregrounded in consideration of the genre's major stars John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, and such films as Shane, Rio Bravo, The Wild Bunch, and Unforgiven.

Book African Cultural Values

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  • Author : Raphael Chijoke Njoku
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-10-23
  • ISBN : 1135528209
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book African Cultural Values written by Raphael Chijoke Njoku and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although numerous studies have been made of the Western educated political elite of colonial Nigeria in particular, and of Africa in general, very few have approached the study from a perspective that analyzes the impacts of indigenous institutions on the lives, values, and ideas of these individuals. This book is about the diachronic impact of indigenous and Western agencies in the upbringing, socialization, and careers of the colonial Igbo political elite of southeastern Nigeria. The thesis argues that the new elite manifests the continuity of traditions and culture and therefore their leadership values and the impact they brought on African society cannot be fully understood without looking closely at their lived experiences in those indigenous institutions where African life coheres. The key has been to explore this question at the level of biography, set in the context of a carefully reconstructed social history of the particular local communities surrounding the elite figures. It starts from an understanding of their family and village life, and moves forward striving to balance the familiar account of these individuals in public life, with an account of the ongoing influences from family, kinship, age grades, marriage and gender roles, secret societies, the church, local leaders and others. The result is not only a model of a new approach to African elite history, but also an argument about how to understand these emergent leaders and their peers as individuals who shared with their fellow Africans a dynamic and complex set of values that evolved over the six decades of colonialism.

Book Islam in West Africa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nehemia Levtzion
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-01-12
  • ISBN : 1315295431
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Islam in West Africa written by Nehemia Levtzion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994, this volume brings together essays from the celebrated scholar of African history, Nehemia Levtzion. The articles cover a wide range of themes including Islamization, Islam in politics, Islamic revolutions and the work of the historian in studying this field. This collection is a rich source of supplementary material to Professor Levtzion’s major publications on Islam in West Africa. This book will be of key interest to those studying Islamic and West African history.

Book A Handbook of Dates

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  • Author : C. R. Cheney
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2000-04-06
  • ISBN : 9780521778459
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book A Handbook of Dates written by C. R. Cheney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook of Dates is an unrivalled reference book for historians. It provides in clear, user-friendly form, tables which allow the calculation of the dates (and days) on which historical events have fallen or will fall, from AD 500 to 2100. It describes the calendars and other systems used for dating purposes in England from Roman times to the present, including regnal years. Lists of Easter dates, saints' days, popes, rulers of England and the Roman calendar are also given. In this updated and expanded edition, edited by Professor Michael Jones, the introductory materials for each set of tables has been revised. New tables for legal chronology, old and new style dates, Celtic Easter, adoption of Gregorian style, and the French Revolutionary calendar have been added, while the existing Anglo-Saxon regnal lists have been significantly revised. A Handbook of Dates is an essential tool for all researchers in British history.

Book The Red Fez

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fritz Kramer
  • Publisher : Verso
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780860914655
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book The Red Fez written by Fritz Kramer and published by Verso. This book was released on 1993 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the ways in which colonial Europeans have been represented in African ritual art and drama.