Adrift on the Open Veld - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adrift on the Open Veld write by Deneys Reitz. This book was released on 1999. Adrift on the Open Veld available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Seven Votes
Seven Votes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seven Votes write by Richard Steyn. This book was released on 2020-08-01. Seven Votes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If a mere seven more MPs had voted with Prime Minister JBM Hertzog in favour of neutrality, South Africa's history would have been quite different. Parliament's narrow decision to go to war in 1939 led to a seismic upheaval throughout the 1940s: black people streamed in their thousands from rural areas to the cities in search of jobs; volunteers of all races answered the call to go 'up north' to fight; and opponents of the Smuts government actively hindered the war effort by attacking soldiers and committing acts of sabotage. World War Two upended South Africa's politics, ruining attempts to forge white unity and galvanising opposition to segregation among African, Indian and coloured communities. It also sparked debates among nationalists, socialists, liberals and communists such as the country had never previously experienced. As Richard Steyn recounts so compellingly in Seven Votes, the war's unforeseen consequence was the boost it gave to nationalisms, both Afrikaner and African, which went on to transform the country in the second half of the 20th century. The book brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters, including wartime leader Jan Smuts, DF Malan and his National Party colleagues, African nationalists from Anton Lembede and AB Xuma to Walter Sisulu and Nelson Mandela, the influential Indian activists Yusuf Dadoo and Monty Naicker, and many others.
Place
Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Place write by Justin Fox. This book was released on 2023-10-20. Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Place is a moving love letter to South Africa, merging literature and landscape, and taking the reader on a breath-taking journey – into the heart of South Africa’s spectacular landscape and the inner-worlds of its most celebrated authors.
Washed with Sun
Washed with Sun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Washed with Sun write by Jeremy Foster. This book was released on 2014-08-15. Washed with Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. South Africa is recognized as a site of both political turmoil and natural beauty, and yet little work has been done in connecting these defining national characteristics. Washed with Sun achieves this conjunction in its multidisciplinary study of South Africa as a space at once natural and constructed. Weaving together practical, aesthetic, and ideological analyses, Jeremy Foster examines the role of landscape in forming the cultural iconographies and spatialities that shaped the imaginary geography of emerging nationhood. Looking in particular at the years following the British victory in the second Boer War, from 1902 to 1930, Foster discusses the influence of painting, writing, architecture, and photography on the construction of a shared, romanticized landscape subjectivity that was perceived as inseparable from "being South African," and thus helped forge the imagined community of white South Africa. In its innovative approach to South Africa's history, Washed with Sun breaks important new ground, combining the persuasive theory of cultural geography with the material specificity of landscape history.
The Greater War
The Greater War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Greater War write by Jonathan Kraus. This book was released on 2014-10-31. The Greater War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Greater War is an international history of the First World War. Comprising of thirteen chapters this collection of essays covers new aspects of the French, German, Italian and American efforts in the First World War, as well as aspects of Britain's colonial campaigns.
