Download or read book Report from the Select Committee on Closer Land Settlement written by South Africa. Parliament. Senate. Select Committee on Closer Land Settlement and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Final Report from the Select Committee on the Conditions and Prospects of the Agricultural Industry and Methods of Improving the Same written by New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council. Select Committee on the Conditions and Prospects of the Agricultural Industry and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Green Lands for White Men written by Meredith McKittrick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How an audacious environmental engineering plan fanned white settlers’ visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust in scientific experts, and gave rise to the Apartheid state. In 1918, South Africa’s climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed that rainfall was dwindling, while nineteenth-century missionaries and explorers had found riverbeds, seashells, and other evidence of a verdant past deep in the Kalahari Desert. Government experts insisted, however, that the rains weren’t disappearing; the land, long susceptible to periodic drought, had been further degraded by settler farmers’ agricultural practices—an explanation that white South Africans rejected. So when the geologist Ernest Schwarz blamed the land itself, the farmers listened. Schwarz held that erosion and topography had created arid conditions, that rainfall was declining, and that agriculture was not to blame. As a solution, he proposed diverting two rivers to the Kalahari’s basins, creating a lush country where white South Africans could thrive. This plan, which became known as the Kalahari Thirstland Redemption Scheme, was rejected by most scientists. But it found support among white South Africans who worried that struggling farmers undermined an image of racial superiority. Green Lands for White Men explores how white agriculturalists in southern Africa grappled with a parched and changing terrain as they sought to consolidate control over a Black population. Meredith McKittrick’s timely history of the Redemption Scheme reveals the environment to have been central to South African understandings of race. While Schwarz’s plan was never implemented, it enjoyed sufficient support to prompt government research into its feasibility, and years of debate. McKittrick shows how white farmers rallied around a plan that represented their interests over those of the South African state and delves into the reasons behind this schism between expert opinion and public perception. This backlash against the predominant scientific view, McKittrick argues, displayed the depth of popular mistrust in an expanding scientific elite. A detailed look at the intersection of a settler society, climate change, white nationalism, and expert credibility, Green Lands for White Men examines the reverberations of a scheme that ultimately failed but influenced ideas about race and the environment in South Africa for decades to come.
Download or read book List of Union Publications Issued by the Government Printing and Stationery Department written by South Africa. Printing and Stationery Department and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Making of South African Legal Culture 1902 1936 written by Martin Chanock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-05 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Chanock's illuminating and definitive perspective on that development examines all areas of the law including criminal law and criminology; the Roman-Dutch law; the State's African law; and land, labour and 'rule of law' questions.
Download or read book Report of the Select Committee on Cost of Living Commission s Reports written by South Africa. Parliament. House of Assembly. Select Committee on Cost of Living Commission's Reports and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emigrants and empire written by Stephen Constantine and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Drummond's two pioneering studies, British Economic Policy and the Empire 1919-1939, 1972, and Imperial Economic Policy 1917-1939, 1974, helped to revive interest in Empire migration and other aspects of inter-war imperial economic history. This book concentrates upon the attempts to promote state-assisted migration in the post-First World War period particularly associated with the Empire Settlement Act of 1922. It examines the background to these new emigration experiments, the development of plans for both individual and family migration, as well as the specific schemes for the settlement of ex-servicemen and of women. Varying degrees of encouragement, acquiescence and resistance with which they were received in the dominions, are discussed. After the First World War there was a striking reorientation of state policy on emigration from the United Kingdom. A state-assisted emigration scheme for ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen, operating from 1919 to 1922, was followed by an Empire Settlement Act, passed in 1922. This made significant British state funding available for assisted emigration and overseas land settlement in British Empire countries. Foremost amongst the achievements of the high-minded imperial projects was the free-passage scheme for ex-servicemen and women which operated between 1919 and 1922 under the auspices of the Oversea Settlement Committee. Cheap passages were considered as one of the prime factors in stimulating the flow of migration, particularly in the case of single women. The research represented here makes a significant contribution to the social histories of these states as well as of the United Kingdom.
Download or read book Debates of the Senate written by South Africa. Parliament. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Official Reports of the Parliamentary Debates written by South Australia. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journals and Printed Papers of the Parliament of Tasmania written by Tasmania. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minutes and Votes and Proceedings of the Parliament with Papers Presented to Both Houses written by Western Australia. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Debates written by South Africa. Parliament. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Convegno celebrativo del centenario della nascita di Mauro Picone e di Leonida Tonelli Roma 6 9 maggio 1985 written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joint Volumes of Papers Presented to the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly written by New South Wales. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes various departmental reports and reports of commissions. Cf. Gregory. Serial publications of foreign governments, 1815-1931.
