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Download or read book The Founder written by Robert I. Rotberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-25 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of the 19th century captures a life that was complex and fascinating, evil and good. Illustrated.
Download or read book Through Life and Round the World Being the Story of My Life written by Raymond Blathwayt and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Cape Journals of Archdeacon N J Merriman 1848 1855 written by Nathaniel James Merriman and published by Van Riebeeck Society, The. This book was released on 1957 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selections from the Correspondence of Percy Alport Molteno 1892 1914 written by Percy Alport Molteno and published by Van Riebeeck Society, The. This book was released on 1981 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rhodes And His Banker written by Richard Steyn and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhodes and his Banker is an account of the remarkable friendship between a larger-than-life historical figure and a modest, unassuming banker, both of whom were personally involved in all the major political and financial developments in Southern Africa during the closing decades of the 19th century. The financial institution that brought diamond and gold magnate Cecil John Rhodes and Sir Lewis Michell together – the Standard Bank – was at the heart of the country's rapid transformation from an agricultural backwater to an industrial powerhouse thanks to the discovery of diamonds and gold. The book chronicles the activities and growth of the bank under the remarkable stewardship of Michell and recounts his role as the trusted confidant of Rhodes. Michell published the first biography of Rhodes to be written after his death and offers many intriguing insights into the character and motives of one of the most controversial and self-driven of British imperialists. He also did everything he could to fulfil Rhodes's ambition for a united South Africa and played a key role in setting up the world-famous Rhodes Scholarship programme. Intertwining dual narratives of Rhodes as rapacious entrepreneur with the Standard Bank under Michell tiptoeing in his wake to become the biggest bank in Africa, Steyn recounts how colonialism and capitalism took root in South Africa and Rhodesia.
Download or read book The MacKenzie Moment and Imperial History written by Stephanie Barczewski and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates the career of the eminent historian of the British Empire John M. MacKenzie, who pioneered the examination of the impact of the Empire on metropolitan culture. It is structured around three areas: the cultural impact of empire, 'Four-Nations' history, and global and transnational perspectives. These essays demonstrate MacKenzie’s influence but also interrogate his legacy for the study of imperial history, not only for Britain and the nations of Britain but also in comparative and transnational context. Written by seventeen historians from around the world, its subjects range from Jumbomania in Victorian Britain to popular imperial fiction, the East India Company, the ironic imperial revivalism of the 1960s, Scotland and Ireland and the empire, to transnational Chartism and Belgian colonialism. The essays are framed by three evaluations of what will be known as 'the MacKenzian moment' in the study of imperialism.
Download or read book European Imperialism and the Partition of Africa written by Ernest Francis Penrose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to explain the European partition of Africa between 1880-1900.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Africa written by J. D. Fage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume VI covers the period 1870-1905, when the European powers divided the continent of Africa into colonial territories.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of South Africa written by Christopher Saunders and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the most influential and powerful country on the entire continent of Africa, an understanding of South Africa’s past and its present trends is crucial in appreciating where South Africans are going to, and from where they have come. South Africa changed dramatically in 1994 when apartheid was dismantled, and it became a democratic state. Since 2000, when the previous edition appeared, further big changes occurred, with the rise of new political leaders and of a new black middle class. There were also serious problems in governance, in public health, and the economy, but with a remarkable popular resilience too. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of South Africa contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 600 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about South Africa.
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Download or read book Gladstone and Kruger written by Deryck Schreuder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1969, Gladstone and Kruger examines British reactions to the Afrikaner nationalism. Beginning with the first Anglo-Boer war of 1880-81, it examines the formulation of policy after the British defeat at Majuba Hill. A that moment, the dangers of a pan-Afrikaner revolt in the Transvaal, Orange Free State and Cape Province seemed imminent, and the British presence in southern Africa seemed very much at risk. Schreuder shows how the devolution of metropolitan Imperial power on to local ministries conflicted with the Whig concern for the preservation of British dominance and prestige abroad and provides a commentary on the Liberal response to the Irish problem.
Download or read book Sir Graham Bower s Secret History of the Jameson Raid and the South African Crisis 1895 1902 written by Graham Bower and published by Van Riebeeck Society, The. This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shakespearean International Yearbook written by Graham Bradshaw and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extended special section in the ninth issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook investigates the uses to which Shakespeare's work was put in South Africa in the twentieth century. The temporal limit emphasizes how the titanic political and ideological struggles that convulsed South Africa also affected how Shakespeare was studied, interpreted, taught and performed. This issue also includes essays on Henry V; garden scenes in Shakespeare; and all-male productions of As you Like It.
