Studies In The Social And Economic History Of The Witwatersrand 1886 1914 New Babylon

Author : Charles Van Onselen
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ISBN 13 : 9780869752104
Total Pages : 230 pages
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Author : Charles Van Onselen
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Download or read book Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand, 1886-1914 written by Charles Van Onselen and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Van Onselen
Publisher : Harlow, Essex ; New York : Longman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Download or read book Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand, 1886-1914: New Nineveh written by Charles Van Onselen and published by Harlow, Essex ; New York : Longman. This book was released on 1982 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven J. Salm
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580463140
Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective written by Steven J. Salm and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and urban societies of sub-Saharan Africa. African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective presents new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of African urban history and culture. It presents original research and integrates historical methodologies with those of anthropology, geography, literature, art, and architecture. Moving between precolonial, colonial, and contemporary urban spaces, it covers the major regions, religions, and cultural influences of sub-Saharan Africa. The themes include Islam and Christianity, architecture, migration, globalization, social and physical decay, identity, race relations, politics, and development. This book elaborates on not only what makes the study of African urban spaces unique within urban historiography, it also offers an-encompassing and up-to-date study of the subject and inserts Africa into the growing debate on urban history and culture throughout the world. The opportunities provided by the urban milieu are endless and each study opens new potential avenues of research. This book explores some of those avenues and lays the groundwork on which new studies can build. Contributors: Maurice NyamangaAmutabi, Catherine Coquery Vidrovitch, Mark Dike DeLancey, Thomas Ngomba Ekali, Omar A. Eno, Doug T. Feremenga, Laurent Fourchard, James Genova, Fatima Muller-Friedman, Godwin R. Murunga, Kefa M. Otiso, Michael Ralph, Jeremy Rich, Eric Ross, Corinne Sandwith, Wessel Visser. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin; Steven J.Salm is Assistant Professor of History, Xavier University of Louisiana.

Author : Charles Van Onselen
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
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Total Pages : 528 pages
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Download or read book New Babylon, New Nineveh written by Charles Van Onselen and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in one volume, this book explores the Past struggles of everyday people on the Witwatersrand, 1886-1914. This was a period of extraordinary social, political and economic change. Charles van Onselen explores a host of practices, processes and problems which, in many ways, make for startling comparisons with modern-clay South Africa. "New Babylon" and "New Nineveh" were originally published in London in 1982. They contain a brief exploration of mining enterprise on the Rand at that time, which sets the scene for eight essays that cover diverse aspects of the unpredictable and fascinating social developments that accompanied industrialisation and urbanisation in the years leading up to the First World War. Van Onselen investigates the pervasive, but highly problematic use of alcohol and prostitution, which were used to control both Black and White mine workers, by the state and the mine owners. He also explains that the direct consequence of this was the emergence of powerful east European criminal syndicates, who brought in women to work in the taverns and brothels that were numerous at the time. This exploitation of the lifestyle of the single miners later gave way to the official encouragement of working-class family life. This gave rise to the advent of domestic servants and the introduction of a systematic programme of sub-urbanisation and cheap public transport. We see how not even these developments were able to protect the poorest and weakest South Africans of the time -- the Afrikaners and the Blacks. Van Onselen explains how Afrikaner unemployment and an affinity for trade unionism were paralleled by further marginalisation, black unemployment and the resultant formation of prison gangs, which flourish even to the present day.

Author : Charles Van Onselen
Publisher : Harlow, Essex ; New York : Longman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Download or read book Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand, 1886-1914: New Babylon written by Charles Van Onselen and published by Harlow, Essex ; New York : Longman. This book was released on 1982 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Keith Beavon
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004491805
Total Pages : 393 pages
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Download or read book Johannesburg written by Keith Beavon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now there has been no single text that brings together the material that reveals the unfolding geography of Johannesburg, South Africa. This books describes the history of the city from its days as a mining camp to its position of premier metropolis in Africa. The present geography of Johannesburg, and the problems and dysfunctions that is hat exhibited at various stages in its history since 1886, cannot be understood without a firm grasp of what has evolved of the past 120 years.

Author : Charles Van Onselen
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ISBN 13 : 9780582643833
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441164766
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book Modern South Africa in World History written by Rob Skinner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses South African history within imperial and global networks of power, trade and communication. South African modernity is understood in terms of the interplay between internal and external forces. Key historical themes, including the emergence of an industrialised economy, the development of systematic racial discrimination and popular resistance against racial power, and the influence of national and ethnic identities on political and social organisation, are set out in relation to imperial and global influences. This book is central to our understanding of South Africa in the context of world history.

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Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506448488
Total Pages : 305 pages
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