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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Cape Colony"”.
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Germans in the Dutch Cape Colony, 1652-1806
… territories for good, in particular in the Cape Colony. This thesis argues that Germans were effective agents of Dutch colonialism as they adapted to Cape colonial society within a generation. Assimilation arose from the actions of the Germans themselves who aimed at greater social and …
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General elections in the Cape Colony, 1898-1908
… elections in South Africa. Although the Cape Colony was only one of four British colonies which formed the Union in 1910, it was the first to evolve a system of two-party politics, and the six parliamentary general elections in the Cape Colony between 1898 and 1908 illustrate the origin …
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Ornaments of the Desert : Springbok Treks in the Cape Colony, 1774-1908
Bibliography: leaves 199-221.
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The admission of slaves and 'prize slaves' into the Cape Colony, 1797-1818
… the thesis that slaves were admitted into the Cape colony by the Cape colonial government, even though the government was opposed to slave importation in principle and law (Slave Trade Act, 1807) from 1797-1818. The colonial demand for slaves was at its height after the Vereenigde Oost-Indische …
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A space for conflict : the scab acts of the Cape Colony, circa 1874-1911
Sheep farmers who protested against the promulgation of anti-scab legislation presented their opinions of the disease in a slew of letters to the press and in testimonies before various scab commissions. Although the farmers' beliefs about scab were heterogeneous, they contained elements of an …
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The English periodical literature of the Cape Colony from its beginning (1824) to 1835
A Study of its origin, Development and Character, with special reference to Editors, Publishers and Contributors and its Reflection of the life of the Times
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A study of politics in the Cape Colony from January 1908 to May 1910
… of vital importance in the history of the old Cape Colony and also of very real significance in the past and future development of the Union of South Africa. It was during this period that the Cape Colony made the tremendous decision to unite with the other South African colonies, and the …
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The conciliation movement in the Cape Colony during the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
The conciliation movement at the Cape was largely the offshoot of a parent body in England. This factor tempts the researcher to compare the one with the other, a practice which produces the most frustrating results. Unlike their English counterparts, the conciliators at the Cape did not form a …
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The administration of Cecil John Rhodes as prime minister of the Cape Colony, 1890-1896
… policy under three heads - the expansion of the Cape Colony; the federation, or, as it was frequently called, the union of South African States; and the Government of the Cape Colony itself when he became its Premier. Any such divisions are of course merely arbitrary, and merely made for the sake …
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Marital Miseries: A History of Marital Conflicts in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony, 1828-1900
Work on the family in the nineteenth-century Cape Colony has focused on the themes of gender and sexuality, and within this framework, significant research has been done with regards to slavery, sexual violence, illegitimacy, infanticide, health and medicine. The monogamous, Christian marriage took …
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Contest and co-option : the struggle for schooling in the African independent churches of the Cape Colony
… social fabric of ordinary black people in the Cape Colony between 1895 and 1920. These churches and schools were in part a creative response to discriminatory mission church politics, a general decline in black economic fortunes, and changes in the nature of black political mobilisation. …
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