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The history of South Africa
\"South Africa's history stretches back to the beginnings of human existence. This book provides an overview to South Africa's multiple millennia of history, covering its long and often troubled past to its current status in the 21st century\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The religion of the Mithras cult in the Roman Empire : mysteries of the unconquered sun
A study of the religious system of Mithraism, one of the 'mystery cults' popular in the Roman Empire contemporary with early Christianity. Mithraism is described from the point of view of the initiate engaging with its rich repertoire of symbols and practices.
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Bibles and Beads: Missionaries as Traders in Southern Africa in the Early Nineteenth Century
Trade across the Cape frontier in the first three decades of the nineteenth century, and government attempts to regulate that trade, cannot be understood without first considering the role of Protestant missionaries as traders and bearers of European manufactured goods in the South African interior. From their arrival in 1799, missionaries of the London Missionary Society carried on a daily trade beyond the northern and eastern boundaries of the Cape Colony that was forbidden by law to the colonists. When missionaries of the Methodist Missionary Society arrived in the mid-1810s they too carried beads as well as Bibles to their mission stations outside the colony. Most missionaries were initially troubled by having to mix commercial activities with their religious duties. They were forced, however, to rely on trade in order to support themselves and their families because of the meagre material and monetary assistance they received from their societies. They introduced European goods among African societies beyond the Cape frontiers earlier and in greater quantities than any other enterprise until the commencement of the Fort Willshire fairs in 1824. Most importantly, they helped to bring about a transition from trade in beads, buttons and other traditional exchange items to a desire among many of the peoples with whom they came into contact for blankets, European clothing and metal tools and utensils, thus creating a growing dependency on European material goods that would eventually bring about a total transformation of these African societies.
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Editing and Publishing the John Philip Papers: Practical Considerations
There is a long tradition in South Africa of publishing private and public documents, beginning with Donald Moodie's The Record, which first appeared in 1838. At the turn of the century the seemingly indefatigable Geroge McCall Theal published a number of collections that have become standard references for South African historians: Belangrijke Historische Dokumenten verzameld in de Kaap Kolonie en Elders (3 vols.); Basutoland Records (3 vols.); Records of South Eastern Africa (9 vols.); and the massive thirty-six-volume edition of the Records of the Cape Colony. The Van Riebeeck Society has just published the seventieth volume in its series of edited diaries, journals, and letters.3 And every student of contemporary South Africa has referred to the four-volume collection of African political documents edited by Gwendolen Carter and Thomas Karis. In this essay I want to discuss the evolution of my own work with the papers of the South African missionary John Philip. I do not intend to delve into the intricacies of transcribing these papers but rather to discuss them in the broader context of documentary editing and the publication of multi-volume editions. The recently organized Association for the Publication of African Historical Sources has rightly identified the need for a coordinated effort to make African historical documents and source materials more readily available to the scholarly community. If the first of these sources to be published is an indication of what may be expected from this series, then all Africanists should join together to give the association their full support.5 But documentary editing is not a simple or inexpensive undertaking, as I hope to show in this paper.
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Our Land, Our Life, Our Future
Beck reviews Our Land, Our Life, Our Future by Harvey M. Feinberg.
Book Review
Claim to the Country: The Archive of Lucy Lloyd and Wilhelm Bleek
Pippa Skotnes sought quite intentionally to create this illusion. [...] she writes, \"I have tried to present the reader with something of the experience of being in the archive, of the physical presence of the documents, the shape of the pages, the colour and texture of their surfaces, the signs of use and age and fragility, and the sheer volume of material it contains ... in an attempt to share this with those who will never know the archive at first hand\" (p. 42).
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The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa: The Kat River Settlement, 1829-1856
Like all good micro-histories, Ross's work places this small border settlement within a larger context, during a period that was, Ross argues, \"both metaphorically and literally at the center of much of what was most significant in the creation of colonial South Africa\" (p. 4). Because of the availability of a rare plethora of archival source material on the Kat River settlers, who enjoyed spectacular and nearly unrivalled agricultural success, Ross is able to \"investigate the borders between the major socioeconomic and racial blocks, so as to see how the lines of division were created and controlled\" (p. 8). [...]Ross argues, it was the settlement's unexpected success that brought it down, for it challenged the racist colonial perspective of both Khoekhoe proponents and opponents alike who believed that non-white peoples were not capable of producing a viable, prosperous community on their own.
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British Missionaries and the End of Empire: East, Central, and Southern Africa, 1939-1964
The first chapter addresses missionary anxieties about the war, about the potentially negative consequences of the Colonial Welfare and Development Act of 1940 on evangelization and mission education, and about the spread of African nationalist sentiment during the war. Chapter 5 examines the actions of the Anglican mission in Kenya between 1948 and 1960, with particular attention given to its response to the state of emergency (1952-1960) and events surrounding the Mau Mau Uprising.
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