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Books > Humanities > History > African history
John Kent has written the first full scholarly study of British and
French policy in their West African colonies during the Second
World War and its aftermath. His detailed analysis shows how the
broader requirements of Anglo-French relations in Europe and the
wider world shaped the formulation and execution of the two
colonial powers' policy in Black Africa. He examines the guiding
principles of the policy-makers in London and Paris and the
problems experienced by the colonial administrators themselves.
This is a genuinely comparative study, thoroughly grounded in both
French and British archives, and it sheds new light on the
development of Anglo-French co-operation in colonial matters in
this period.
This book documents and interprets the trajectory of ethnographic
museums in Tunisia from the colonial to the post-revolutionary
period, demonstrating changes and continuities in role, setting and
architecture across shifting ideological landscapes. The display of
everyday culture in museums is generally looked down upon as being
kitsch and old-fashioned. This research shows that, in Tunisia,
ethnographic museums have been highly significant sites in the
definition of social identities. They have worked as sites that
diffuse social, economic and political tensions through a vast
array of means, such as the exhibition itself, architecture,
activities, tourism, and consumerism. The book excavates the
evolution of paradigms in which Tunisian popular identity has been
expressed through the ethnographic museum, from the modernist
notion of 'indigenous authenticity' under colonial time, to efforts
at developing a Tunisian ethnography after Independence, and more
recent conceptions of cultural diversity since the revolution.
Based on a combination of archival research in Tunisia and in
France, participant observation and interviews with past and
present protagonists in the Tunisian museum field, this research
brings to light new material on an understudied area.
Uit die vertellinge van C.F. Gronum kry die leser ’n seldsame en
insiggewende blik op die leefwyse van die negentiende-eeuse Boere
in die Maricodistrik. Jagtogte, transportryery, verskillende tipes
meule, die delwerye op Kimberley en die Kimberleyse trein is maar
enkele aspekte wat aandag geniet. Die ingewikkelde verhouding
tussen die Boere en Mzilikaze word onder meer in hierdie
kontreigeskiedenis verken. So word daar byvoorbeeld vertel van
tante Pertoors wat uiteindelik haar groen kappie aan Mzilikaze
afgestaan het en hoe hy twee jaar later steeds hoogs in sy skik die
kappie gedra het! Jagtogte, transportryery, verskillende tipes
meule, die delwerye op Kimberley en die Kimberleyse trein is maar
enkele aspekte wat aandag geniet.
Infused with colour, scenes from the Anglo-Boer War suddenly come to life in this striking collection of colourised photos from one of the biggest conflicts on South African soil.
The Anglo-Boer War, or South African War, pitted the two Boer republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State against British imperial might. The effects of this devastating war on the political, economic and social landscape were felt long after its end. The Boer War in Colour contains many iconic photos from the war, as well as several previously unpublished images.
Over the past 120 years, hundreds of books on the Anglo-Boer War have been published, but this will be the first to show this conflict in full colour – introducing a fresh perspective and transforming it into living history.
A Liberian academic and former government official accounts for and
reflects upon half a century of work and experience. An important
Liberian political memoir, the book is at once Dunn's critical
exposition on his country and an attempt to explain how Liberia
came to be what it is today. In 26 captivating chapters he recounts
careers as academic, and services as aide to slain Liberian
President Tolbert and consultant to former President Johnson
Sirleaf. Between government service in crisis times (late 1970s)
and in hopeful times (early 2000s) is positioned more than three
decades of University teaching and research.
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