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lisa ford reviews james belich
American Historical Review: James Belich’s book is useful not just for scholars comparing settler societies but for everyone working on nineteenth-century North America or Australasia. Belich tells a compelling story about economic colonialism in the nineteenth century. In the process, he provides a remarkably accessible synthesis of recent historiography describing economic development in a region […]
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Peter Limb, Norman Etherington and Peter Midgley, ed., Grappling with the Beast: Indigenous Southern African Responses to Colonialism, 1840-1930 (Brill, 2010) This volume contributes rich, new material to provide insights into indigenous responses to the colonial empires of Great Britain (South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)) and Germany (Namibia) and explore the complex intellectual, cultural, […]
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Julie Bonello, ‘The Development of Early Settler Identity in Southern Rhodesia: 1890-1914′, International Journal of African Historical Studies 43, 2 (2010). introductory paragraph: White settlement in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, is little more than a century old, yet its development is a significant and exceptional episode in the complex history of colonial Africa. Like many […]
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Jens-Uwe Guettel, ‘From the Frontier to German South-West Africa: German Colonialism, Indians and American Westward Expansion’, Modern Intellectual History 7, 3 (2010) This article argues that positive perceptions of American westward expansion played a major (and so far overlooked) role both for the domestic German debate about the necessity of overseas expansion and for concrete […]
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Mohamed Adhikari, ‘A total extinction confidently hoped for: the destruction of Cape San society under Dutch colonial rule, 1700-1795’, Journal of Genocide Research 12, 1 (2010) Abstract: San (Bushman) society in the Cape Colony was almost completely annihilated during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a result of land confiscation, massacre, forced labour and cultural […]
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Stephen Allen and Alexandra Xanthaki (ed.), Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2010) The adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations General Assembly on 13 September 2007 was acclaimed as a major success for the United Nations system given the […]
Filed under: Africa, Australia, Canada, Hawaii, Latin America, law, New Zealand, Pacific, Scholarship and insights, Southern Africa, United States | Closed
In South Africa we want the study of Anthropology to assist in dealing with the ever present native problem. I have always felt, and I think I have sometimes said, that the more we look upon the native in South Africa as a scientific problem the less we shall feel he is a social danger. […]
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Simon Pooley, ‘Pressed Flowers: Notions of Indigenous and Alien Vegetation in South Africa’s Western Cape, 1902-45 ‘, Journal of Southern African Studies 36, 3 (2010) Abstract In the early twentieth century, botanists in South Africa’s Western Cape sought urgently to popularise and protect the region’s unique indigenous Fynbos flora. Plants imported from the 1840s, some […]
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reblog: the good guys
The film shows the farmers’ fight to keep their farms all the while Mugabe’s government tries to evict them, harass them and ultimately beats them up and successfully seizes their land. It is meant to be a sad story, and it is–highlighting the plight of the White farmers in Zimbabwe. It is also a blatant […]
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