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Book Africa

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1936
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1196 pages

Download or read book Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Proceedings of the Executive council and List of members, also section "Review of books".

Book Participant Observers

Download or read book Participant Observers written by Freddy Foks and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By the 1950s, social anthropologists were at the forefront of debates about culture, society, and the limits to economic development in Britain and the British Empire. This book explains how anthropology rose to such prominence and how its influence dispersed across the humanities and social sciences. Part institutional history of social anthropology's imperial formation, part cultural history of the discipline's impact, this is the first account of social anthropology's pivotal role in Britain's midcentury intellectual culture"--

Book The African Observer

Download or read book The African Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 1935-02 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Colonial Office Library  London

Download or read book Catalogue of the Colonial Office Library London written by Great Britain. Colonial Office. Library and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Africa as a Living Laboratory

Download or read book Africa as a Living Laboratory written by Helen Tilley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Africa as a Living Laboratory' is a study of the relationship between imperialism and scientific expertise - environmental medical, racial and anthropological - in the colonization of British Africa.

Book Empire and Film

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  • Author : Lee Grieveson
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-07-25
  • ISBN : 183871555X
  • Pages : 550 pages

Download or read book Empire and Film written by Lee Grieveson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This important new volume reconstructs the forms of production, distribution and exhibition of films made in and about the colonies. It then ties them to wider theoretical issues about film and liberalism, spectacle and political economy, representation and rule. The result is one of the first volumes to examine how imperial rule is intimately tied to the emergence of documentary as a form and, indeed, how the history of cinema is at the same time the history of Empire.' BRIAN LARKIN, Barnard College 'This superb collection of new scholarship shows how cinema both communicated and aided the imperialist agenda throughout the twentieth century. In doing so, it shows film can be understood as one of the tools of empire, as much as the technology of weaponry or modes of administration: a means of education and indoctrination in the colonies and at home.' TOM GUNNING, University of Chicago At its height in 1919, the British Empire claimed 58 countries, 400 million subjects, and 14 million square miles of ground. Empire and Film brings together leading international scholars to examine the integral role cinema played in the control, organisation, and governance of this diverse geopolitical space. The essays reveal the complex interplay between the political and economic control essential to imperialism and the emergence and development of cinema in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. Contributors address how the production, distribution and exhibition of film were utilised by state and industrial and philanthropic institutions to shape the subject positions of coloniser and colonised; to demarcate between 'civilised' and 'primitive' and codify difference; and to foster a political economy of imperialism that was predicated on distinctions between core and periphery. The generic forms of colonial cinema were, consequently, varied: travelogues mapped colonial spaces; actuality films re-presented spectacles of royal authority and imperial conquest and conflict; home movies rendered colonial self-representation; state-financed newsreels and documentaries fostered political and economic control and the 'education' of British and colonial subjects; philanthropic and industrial organisations sponsored films to expand Western models of capitalism; British and American film companies made films of imperial adventure. These films circulated widely in Britain and the empire, and were sustained through the establishment of imperial networks of distribution and exhibition, including in particular innovative mobile exhibition circuits and non-theatrical spaces like schools, museums and civic centres. Empire and Film is a significant revision to the historical and conceptual frameworks of British cinema history, and is a major contribution to the history of cinema as a global form that emerged amid, and in dialogue with, the global flows of imperialism. The book is produced in conjunction with a major website housing freely available digitised archival films and materials relating to British colonial cinema, www.colonialfilm.org.uk, and a companion volume entitled Film and the End of Empire.

Book Monarchs  Missionaries and African Intellectuals

Download or read book Monarchs Missionaries and African Intellectuals written by Bhekizizwe Peterson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the work in the field of African studies still relies on rigid distinctions of ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’, ‘collaboration’ and ‘resistance’, ‘indigenous’ and ‘foreign’. This book moves well beyond these frameworks to probe the complex entanglements of different intellectual traditions in the South African context, by examining two case studies. The case studies constitute the core around which is woven this intriguing story of the development of black theatre in South Africa in the early years of the century. It also highlights the dialogue between African and African-American intellectuals, and the intellectual formation of the early African elite in relation to colonial authority and how each affected the other in complicated ways. The first case study centres on Mariannhill Mission in KwaZulu-Natal. Here the evangelical and pedagogical drama pioneered by the Rev Bernard Huss, is considered alongside the work of one of the mission’s most eminent alumni, the poet and scholar, B.W. Vilakazi. The second moves to Johannesburg and gives a detailed insight into the working of the Bantu Dramatic Society and the drama of H.I.E. Dhlomo in relation to the British Drama League and other white liberal cultural activities.

Book The Last British Liberals in Africa

Download or read book The Last British Liberals in Africa written by Dickson Mungazi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-05-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the clash of two traditions, British liberalism and African nationalism, and an examination of how Michael Blundell in Kenya and Garfield Todd in Zimbabwe used their liberal backgrounds to further the future of their adopted countries, despite threats and detention. Both Blundell and Todd believed that political leaders had a responsibility to serve the needs of the people as a condition of national development. By the time each came to power, European colonization had had a profoundly negative effect on the lives of Africans; Blundell and Todd sought to correct this by putting their positive views of Africans into practice. While colonial governments designed strategies for controlling Africans to serve political and economic interests at home in Europe, Africans themselves established their own effective strategy, not only to ensure their survival in the colonial setting, but also to initiate a process for the restoration of their sense of self. Michael Blundell and Garfield Todd, with their liberal beliefs, served as excellent allies in this period of a rising African consciousness. Using sources obtained in Kenya and Zimbabwe over the past 15 years, this work examines democratic traditions that have survived tumultuous times in recent years.

Book Reviews and Essays of Austin Clarke

Download or read book Reviews and Essays of Austin Clarke written by Austin Clarke and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1995 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austin Clarke is widely regarded as one of 20th-century Ireland's most important poets. In this selection of nearly fifty essays and reviews written over Clarke's long career, he demonstrates that he is an astute and provocative literary critic as well. Having grown up in Dublin when the excitement of the Irish Literary Revival was still running high, Clarke knew many of the principal figures of that movement personally, and his readings of Yeats, Joyce, Synge, O'Casey, Lady Gregory, George Moore, and others enjoy the advantages of an insider's point of view. A selection of Clarke's writings on Yeats is followed by his writings on other Irish writers and the Irish Literary Revival, and on Modern English and American literature. Included as an appendix is an exhaustive list of Clarke's literary criticism published in periodicals.

Book The Rise of Conservation in South Africa

Download or read book The Rise of Conservation in South Africa written by William Beinart and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-29 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major contribution to the environmental history of settler societies, William Beinart's innovative study analyses the development of conservationalist ideas over the long term in South Africa, examining them as a response to the rapid transformation of natural pastures brought about as the Cape became a major exporter of wool.

Book A Saro Community in the Niger Delta  1912 1984

Download or read book A Saro Community in the Niger Delta 1912 1984 written by Mac Dixon-Fyle and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining the history of the Potts-Johnsons (an immigrant Saro (emigrant Krio people) family from Sierra Leone) living in the Port Harcourt region of Nigeria from roughly 1912-1984, this study reviews the migration history of the Saro in the Niger River delta. The work also touches on many important issues to consider when researching African history: intra-African migration, status of and dominance by elites (both indigenous and immigrant), women's roles in social relationships, and the preservation of family and cultural values under extreme socio-economic stress. Mac Dixon-Fyle is an Associate Professor of History at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.

Book An African American in South Africa

Download or read book An African American in South Africa written by Ralph Johnson Bunche and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Bunche, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, traveled to South Africa for three months in 1937. His notes, which have been skillfully compiled and annotated by historian Robert R. Edgar, provide unique insights on a segregated society.

Book The Black Jacobins Reader

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  • Author : Charles Forsdick
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2017-01-06
  • ISBN : 0822373947
  • Pages : 475 pages

Download or read book The Black Jacobins Reader written by Charles Forsdick and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution. In addition to considering the book's literary qualities and its role in James's emergence as a writer and thinker, the contributors discuss its production, context, and enduring importance in relation to debates about decolonization, globalization, postcolonialism, and the emergence of neocolonial modernity. The Reader also includes the reflections of activists and novelists on the book's influence and a transcript of James's 1970 interview with Studs Terkel. Contributors. Mumia Abu-Jamal, David Austin, Madison Smartt Bell, Anthony Bogues, John H. Bracey Jr., Rachel Douglas, Laurent Dubois, Claudius K. Fergus, Carolyn E. Fick, Charles Forsdick, Dan Georgakas, Robert A. Hill, Christian Høgsbjerg, Selma James, Pierre Naville, Nick Nesbitt, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Matthew Quest, David M. Rudder, Bill Schwarz, David Scott, Russell Maroon Shoatz, Matthew J. Smith, Studs Terkel

Book The Commonwealth Relations Office Year Book

Download or read book The Commonwealth Relations Office Year Book written by Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Leather

Download or read book Leather written by Julius Gabriel Schnitzer and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Commonwealth Relations Office List

Download or read book The Commonwealth Relations Office List written by Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modern Dance  Negro Dance

Download or read book Modern Dance Negro Dance written by Susan Manning and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two traditionally divided strains of American dance, Modern Dance and Negro Dance, are linked through photographs, reviews, film, and oral history, resulting in a unique view of the history of American dance.