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Showing 1 to 20 of 440 for “"Historical Studies"”.
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An analysis of historical studies of literacy standards from three epochs in American elementary education
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Understanding the Research Data Management Practices of Researchers in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town
… data management practices in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. The purpose of the study was an exploration of the research data management practices in the Department particularly in light of the University of Cape Town's research data management policy. The …
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A validation and feasibility study of the non-invasive measurement of oxygen delivery and consumption after elective major abdominal surgery.
… be met by an increased oxygen delivery (DO2). Historical studies described the increase in V̇O2 in patients after major surgery and presented evidence that the inability to meet this increase oxygen demand and the temporal pattern of this oxygen deficit appears to differ according to whether …
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Rape as a tool of war: a critical study
… and approaches including Anthropological Studies, Feminist Studies and Historical Studies. The analysis also includes Political Studies and its various sub-disciplines, case studies of African conflicts and more specifically studies of the Rwandan conflict, together with the civil war of …
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Reporting on the Holocaust in South Africa: An Examination of Press Coverage and Memorialization in the Aftermath of World War II
Until recently, little scholarly work has focused on the development of Holocaust memory in South Africa, particularly regarding the extent to which the Holocaust has been ‘domesticated' – refracted through a local lens – in this country. This dissertation seeks to add to a broader scholarly effort …
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Producing the Precolonial: Professional and Popular Lives of Mapungubwe, 1937-2017
… and contested imaginaire of Mapungubwe has been historically constructed. Necessarily, it is also an unpicking of the languages of evidence. The work is divided into three parts, each dealing with a different strut in the making of Mapungubwe. The first chapter covers the archaeological …
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The discovery and development of the Namaqualand Diamond Field, 1925-1950
… materials and interviews, this thesis is a historical study of diamond mining in Namaqualand, Northern Cape Province of South Africa, during the period 1925 to 1950. It is a history that led to the region becoming synonymous with diamonds. The focus then is the first diamond find on the …
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Omeya: Water, work and infrastructure in Ovamboland from 1915 to 1968
This dissertation seeks to explore the ways in which the multiple layers of infrastructure and archive have been coconstituted in Ovamboland from 1915 to 1968 in an effort to store, circulate and redirect water and its knowledge, which in turn seemed to frequently escape and exceed them. In the …
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“To the black women we all know”: three women's contemporary mobilizations of history in relation to questions of status, belonging, and identity in Mpolweni Mission, KwaZulu-Natal
… address this gap, this thesis explores the oral historical narrations of three women of three different generations from my maternal family, namely Gogo MaHlubi, Mamkhulu Ntombenhle, and Mam Phindile, who are based in Mpolweni Mission. These women are descendants of amakholwa and were socialized …
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Perception and Politics: Chinese South Africans in 1980 and 2008
In 2008, Chinese South Africans achieved inclusion in the efforts of the government's Black Economic Empowerment policy, following their inclusion was criticism accusing the Chinese of being adjacent to whiteness and therefore undeserving of their victory. This work examines past perceptions of …
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Sport, space and segregation Pietermaritzburg, 1900-1980
Sport is located historically within its political, economic, cultural and social context in order to assess its role in human and spatial relations; and its meaning for various communities. This study aims to measure the impact of dominant ideology (imperialism, segregation and apartheid), the …
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"Hammering in the wedges": The political praxis of Harriette Colenso in Zululand and Natal, 1884 to 1913
This dissertation tracks and analyses the praxis of the political actor, Harriette Colenso, in support of Africans in the struggle against imperialism, in Natal and Zululand, between 1884 and 1913. It examines the interplay between Colenso's political praxis and the rapidly changing colonial …
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“Face of Fertility: Migrant isiXhosa-speaking Women's Reproductive Experiences and Agency in the Cape 1950-1989”
… have been influential quantitative demographic studies documenting the decline in fertility in this period, more qualitative, oral history studies are needed to describe African migrant women's reproductive decision-making in relation to how many children they chose to have and which points in …
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Capturing the soul : encounters between Berlin missionaries and Tshivenda-speakers in the late nineteenth century
During the 1990s, missionaries and their interaction with local societies began to assume a central role in historiographical debates in, and about, South Africa. This new focus built on pioneering work produced during the preceding two decades. My study foregrounds the value of the archives and …
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A history of the Kano Book Market, c. 1920-2020
By borrowing both empirical and conceptual tools from book history, this dissertation documents the history of the Kano Book Market (KBM) in northern Nigeria. Its sources are drawn from archives, private and public records, oral histories, and "printed manuscripts" (religious tracts retaining …
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The Visual Syntax of a Postcolony: Photographs in Zambia, 1930s – 1980s
This dissertation investigates how photographs and photographic practices have both shaped and have been shaped by the political, cultural and performative demands of the project of postcolonial nation building in Zambia. Drawing on both visual and textual materials from the 1930s to the 1980s, …
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The development of manufacturing industry in South Africa 1939-1969
[page 82, 170 missing] The field of study below is that of the South African manufacturing industry in the period from the Second World War to the end of the nineteen-sixties. In relation to preceding developments, this period was unique in at least two respects. In the first place, the nature of …
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The state and upland populations: Ivory, Cattle and Guns in Nomansland 1820-1880
This thesis examines trade and illicit networks in the area of the southern Drakensberg known as Nomansland through the commodities of ivory, cattle and guns in the period 1820 to 1880. In doing so it proposes that the ivory economy pursued by Botwas in the 1820s and 1830s constituted a resistance …
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Exploring the value of 'The Rwandan genocide Film' as a pedagogical tool for raising awareness
… is a complex subject that even works of written historical discourse struggle to explain. Previous filmic studies have primarily focused on three well known Rwandan genocide films, Hotel Rwanda, Shooting Dogs and Sometimes in April; this thesis expands its focus to nine feature films. Genocide …
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Late Ottoman Perspectives on the South African War (1899-1902): the Work of Ismail Kemal Vlora
The South African War of 1899−1902 or Anglo-Boer War was one of the modern examples of propaganda in history. It revealed an enormous agitprop conducted by British and Boer forces. The European and American public closely followed the struggle between the mighty British Empire and the “little white …
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