Author: Jan Christian Smuts
Publisher: Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press
ISBN: 9780837170596
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Jan Christian Smuts
Author: Jan Christian Smuts
Publisher: Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press
ISBN: 9780837170596
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press
ISBN: 9780837170596
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
STUDIES IN THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE SMUTS.
Author: George Bartholomew Sartoris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Empires Without Imperialism
Author: Jeanne Morefield
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199387257
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199387257
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The Smuts Papers
Author: William Keith Hancock
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Routledge Library Editions: Historical Security
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000519368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 3894
Book Description
This 12-volume set contains titles originally published between 1957 and 1992. International in scope, the set looks at security and military history covering several battles, particularly the first and second world wars. Highlighting the difference between theory and practice, it also explores the people involved in the policy making and strategy of war, and the leaders tasked with carrying those decisions out.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000519368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 3894
Book Description
This 12-volume set contains titles originally published between 1957 and 1992. International in scope, the set looks at security and military history covering several battles, particularly the first and second world wars. Highlighting the difference between theory and practice, it also explores the people involved in the policy making and strategy of war, and the leaders tasked with carrying those decisions out.
The Forgotten Front
Author: Ross Anderson
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750958731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The First World War began in East Africa in August 1914 and did not end until 13 November 1918. In its scale and impact, it was the largest conflict yet to take place on African soil. Four empires and their subject peoples were engaged in a conflict that ranged from modern Kenya in the north to Mozambique in the south. The campaign combined heroic human endeavour and terrible suffering, set in some of the most difficult terrain in the world. The troops had to cope with extremes that ranged from arid deserts to tropical jungles and formidable mountains, and almost always on inadequate rations. Yet the East African campaign has languished in undeserved obscurity over the years, with many people only vaguely aware of its course of events. Indeed, Humphrey Bogart's famous film, The African Queen, inspired by an episode of the campaign, often provides its only lasting image. The Forgotten Front is the first full-scale history of this neglected campaign. Ross Anderson details the fighting and the strategic and political background to the war and the differing viewpoints of the principal protagonists.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750958731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The First World War began in East Africa in August 1914 and did not end until 13 November 1918. In its scale and impact, it was the largest conflict yet to take place on African soil. Four empires and their subject peoples were engaged in a conflict that ranged from modern Kenya in the north to Mozambique in the south. The campaign combined heroic human endeavour and terrible suffering, set in some of the most difficult terrain in the world. The troops had to cope with extremes that ranged from arid deserts to tropical jungles and formidable mountains, and almost always on inadequate rations. Yet the East African campaign has languished in undeserved obscurity over the years, with many people only vaguely aware of its course of events. Indeed, Humphrey Bogart's famous film, The African Queen, inspired by an episode of the campaign, often provides its only lasting image. The Forgotten Front is the first full-scale history of this neglected campaign. Ross Anderson details the fighting and the strategic and political background to the war and the differing viewpoints of the principal protagonists.
Selections from the Smuts Papers: Volume 2, June 1902-May 1910
Author: W. K. Hancock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521033659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first four volumes of Selections from the Smuts Papers cover the period 1886-1919. This volume takes us from the Boer War to the Union of South Africa.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521033659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first four volumes of Selections from the Smuts Papers cover the period 1886-1919. This volume takes us from the Boer War to the Union of South Africa.
Imperial Ecology
Author: Peder ANKER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674020227
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
From 1895 to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, the promising new science of ecology flourished in the British Empire. Peder Anker asks why ecology expanded so rapidly and how a handful of influential scientists and politicians established a tripartite ecology of nature, knowledge, and society. Patrons in the northern and southern extremes of the Empire, he argues, urgently needed tools for understanding environmental history as well as human relations to nature and society in order to set policies for the management of natural resources and to effect social control of natives and white settlement. Holists such as Jan Christian Smuts and mechanists such as Arthur George Tansley vied for the right to control and carry out ecological research throughout the British Empire and to lay a foundation of economic and social policy that extended from Spitsbergen to Cape Town. The enlargement of the field from botany to human ecology required a broader methodological base, and ecologists drew especially on psychology and economy. They incorporated those methodologies and created a new ecological order for environmental, economic, and social management of the Empire. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction From Social Psychology to Imperial Ecology General Smuts's Politics of Holism and Patronage of Ecology The Oxford School of Imperial Ecology Holism and the Ecosystem Controversy The Politics of Holism, Ecology, and Human Rights Planning a New Human Ecology Conclusion: A World without History An Ecology of Ecologists Notes Sources Index Reviews of this book: Peder Anker's Imperial Ecology is the unexpected story of how late-imperial British ecologists took their arcane studies of marine life off Spitzbergen or the game of southern Africa and brought them to bear on very different areas of interest. These ecologists fashioned from their studies a view of human ecology broad enough, in this telling, to embrace cycles of sexual activity in Japanese brothels, famine in central Asia, the building blocks for national economic planning and the cultural underpinnings of Nazism. An eye-opener. --Fred Pearce, New Scientist Reviews of this book: Few books are truly original; however, Anker...puts an original perspective on the history of ecology, linking two major schools of thought...to the imperial aspirations of Great Britain. The UK provided patronage (grants) to support ecologists who in turn provided important concepts strengthening Britain's imperial grip by enhancing resource management and incorporating human ecology into colonial ecosystems...This thought-provoking book provides many new insights into the history of a discipline. It will be news to most ecologists, whose knowledge of their own history is often sketchy at best. --J. Burger, Choice Anker has written a ruthlessly honest political and cultural history of ecology, setting it firmly in the world of nineteenth-century colonialism. Illusions vanish here: turn of the century ecology did not stand for a pure pacifism or an eden of natural harmony. Instead, we find that both the liberal mechanism of British ecologist Arthur George Tansley and the holistic ecology of South African statesman Jan Christian Smuts were both firmly built upon nationalism--and a nationalism that mattered a great deal, militarily, racially, and socially. This is important work and a riveting read. --Peter Galison, Harvard University
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674020227
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
From 1895 to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, the promising new science of ecology flourished in the British Empire. Peder Anker asks why ecology expanded so rapidly and how a handful of influential scientists and politicians established a tripartite ecology of nature, knowledge, and society. Patrons in the northern and southern extremes of the Empire, he argues, urgently needed tools for understanding environmental history as well as human relations to nature and society in order to set policies for the management of natural resources and to effect social control of natives and white settlement. Holists such as Jan Christian Smuts and mechanists such as Arthur George Tansley vied for the right to control and carry out ecological research throughout the British Empire and to lay a foundation of economic and social policy that extended from Spitsbergen to Cape Town. The enlargement of the field from botany to human ecology required a broader methodological base, and ecologists drew especially on psychology and economy. They incorporated those methodologies and created a new ecological order for environmental, economic, and social management of the Empire. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction From Social Psychology to Imperial Ecology General Smuts's Politics of Holism and Patronage of Ecology The Oxford School of Imperial Ecology Holism and the Ecosystem Controversy The Politics of Holism, Ecology, and Human Rights Planning a New Human Ecology Conclusion: A World without History An Ecology of Ecologists Notes Sources Index Reviews of this book: Peder Anker's Imperial Ecology is the unexpected story of how late-imperial British ecologists took their arcane studies of marine life off Spitzbergen or the game of southern Africa and brought them to bear on very different areas of interest. These ecologists fashioned from their studies a view of human ecology broad enough, in this telling, to embrace cycles of sexual activity in Japanese brothels, famine in central Asia, the building blocks for national economic planning and the cultural underpinnings of Nazism. An eye-opener. --Fred Pearce, New Scientist Reviews of this book: Few books are truly original; however, Anker...puts an original perspective on the history of ecology, linking two major schools of thought...to the imperial aspirations of Great Britain. The UK provided patronage (grants) to support ecologists who in turn provided important concepts strengthening Britain's imperial grip by enhancing resource management and incorporating human ecology into colonial ecosystems...This thought-provoking book provides many new insights into the history of a discipline. It will be news to most ecologists, whose knowledge of their own history is often sketchy at best. --J. Burger, Choice Anker has written a ruthlessly honest political and cultural history of ecology, setting it firmly in the world of nineteenth-century colonialism. Illusions vanish here: turn of the century ecology did not stand for a pure pacifism or an eden of natural harmony. Instead, we find that both the liberal mechanism of British ecologist Arthur George Tansley and the holistic ecology of South African statesman Jan Christian Smuts were both firmly built upon nationalism--and a nationalism that mattered a great deal, militarily, racially, and socially. This is important work and a riveting read. --Peter Galison, Harvard University
Collective Violence and the Agrarian Origins of South African Apartheid, 1900-1948
Author: John Higginson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107046483
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
This book examines violence against the rural African population and Africans in general before apartheid became the justification for the existence of the South African state.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107046483
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
This book examines violence against the rural African population and Africans in general before apartheid became the justification for the existence of the South African state.
Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914–1919
Author: Sakiko Kaiga
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108489176
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
An innovative study of the pre-history of the League of Nations, tracing the pro-League movement's unexpected development.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108489176
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
An innovative study of the pre-history of the League of Nations, tracing the pro-League movement's unexpected development.