The Scots Afrikaners
Author: Retief Muller
Publisher: Scottish Religious Cultures
Published: 2023-08-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781474462969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reveals Scots influence on church and society in South Africa
Author: Retief Muller
Publisher: Scottish Religious Cultures
Published: 2023-08-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781474462969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reveals Scots influence on church and society in South Africa
Author: Retief Muller
Publisher: Scottish Religious Cultures
Published: 2021-10-27
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781474462952
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reveals Scots influence on church and society in South Africa
Author: John M. MacKenzie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1847796893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The description of South Africa as a 'rainbow nation' has always been taken to embrace the black, brown and white peoples who constitute its population. But each of these groups can be sub-divided and in the white case, the Scots have made one of the most distinctive contributions to the country's history. Now available in paperback, this book is a full-length study of their role from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. It highlights the interaction of Scots with African peoples, the manner in which missions and schools were credited with producing 'Black Scotsmen' and the ways in which they pursued many distinctive policies. It also deals with the inter-weaving of issues of gender, class and race as well as with the means by which Scots clung to their ethnicity through founding various social and cultural societies. This book offers a major contribution to both Scottish and South African history and in the process illuminates a significant field of the Scottish Diaspora that has so far received little attention.
Author: Vernie A. February
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Donald H. Akenson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780801427558
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Akenson brings to light critical similarities among three politically troubled nations: South Africa, Israel, and Northern Ireland.
Author: Hermann Giliomee
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 715
ISBN-13: 9781849041485
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Afrikaners: Biography of A People, the first comprehensive history of the Afrikaner people based on-and critical of-the most recent scholarly work, draws on the author's own research and interviews conducted with leading political actors. Hermann Giliomee weaves together life stories and interpretation to create a highly readable narrative history of the Afrikaners. This revised and expanded edition also offers a fresh contextualisation of apartheid, its paradoxes and its complex effects, and of the increasingly fraught relationship between the ANC government and the powerless Afrikaner minority. Giliomee revises current orthodoxies on white supremacy in South Africa in important ways. The result is not only a magisterial history of the Afrikaner people, but also a fuller understanding of that history, which for good or ill resonates far beyond the borders of South Africa.
Author: Duncan A. Bruce
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 2014-06-16
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 080653768X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Here is the first-ever celebration of all things—and all people—of Scottish descent. While relatively few in number, the Scots have certainly made their mark on the world: · More the seventy-five percent of all American presidents have had Scottish ancestors, although fewer than five percent of the American population is of Scottish descent. · Almost eleven percent of all the Nobel Prizes ever awarded have involved Scots and their descendants—even though fewer than one half percent of the people of the world can claim Scottish ancestry · At least five of the twelve astronauts who have walked on the moon were descended from Scots. Today there are almost 28 million people of Scottish ancestry in the world, over 12 million of whom reside in the United States, about 4 million in Canada, and about 5 million in Scotland. Scottish accomplishments throughout history in every field of endeavor—from science to the arts to politics and exploration—rival those of even the largest ethnic groups: · Scots have been significant in most of the major inventions of the past three centuries, including the steam engine, the telegraph, the telephone, radio, television, the computer, transistor, and the motion picture · People as diverse as Sir Isaac Newton, Charles de Gaulle, Katharine Hepburn, Winston Churchill, Elizabeth Taylor, Immanuel Kant, Sir Laurence Olivier, Elvis Presley, Edvard Grieg, John D. Rockefeller, and Ty Cobb could claim Scottish ancestry · Warsaw, Madrid, La Paz, and Stockholm have all had mayors of Scottish Descent. The Mark of the Scots contains thousands of facts and is fully annotated. It is a comprehensive and readable book that deserves a place on the shelve of every genealogist, Scottish-American, and history buff.
Author: Noor Nieftagodien
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2014-12-08
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 0821445235
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Soweto uprising was a true turning point in South Africa’s history. Even to contemporaries, it seemed to mark the beginning of the end of apartheid. This compelling book examines both the underlying causes and the immediate factors that led to this watershed event. It looks at the crucial roles of Black Consciousness ideology and nascent school-based organizations in shaping the character and form of the revolt. What began as a peaceful and coordinated demonstration rapidly turned into a violent protest when police opened fire on students. This short history explains the uprising and its aftermath from the perspective of its main participants, the youth, by drawing on a rich body of oral histories.
Author: McInally Tom McInally
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-07-23
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1474466257
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the life of George Strachan (1572 - 1635), early 17th century Scottish Humanist scholar, Orientalist and traveller. The book draws on a wealth of newly discovered archival material to offer new insights into Strachan's life and work, as well as utilising recent scholarship on the relationship between the cultures and religions of East and West. The book explains the voyages that the Catholic exile took to many of the Catholic courts of Europe as a scholar and spy before turning eastwards to embark upon a 22 year journey around the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires. By becoming fully literate in Arabic and Farsi he was able to gain a unique knowledge of Eastern societies. Strachan's collection of Arabic and Farsi texts on Islam, philosophy and humanities, which he translated and sent to Europe for the advancement of European knowledge of Islam and Islamic societies, became Strachan's real intellectual legacy.
Author: Bill Nasson
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2012-10-02
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0143027166
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Great War of 1914-18 was a conflict which engulfed the whole world, directly or indirectly. It was an imperialist world war that tugged the new Union of South Africa and its people into a series of separate but connected conflicts - from the domestic Afrikaner Rebellion on the highveld, through the sands of German South West Africa, the steamy bush of German East Africa, and on to the mud and blood of France and Flanders. This book is the first general study of the complex ways in which South Africans experienced the impact of the First World War, and responded to its demands, burdens and opportunities. Told with his customary narrative energy and ironic style, Bill Nasson's new history is a lively account not only of how South Africa fought the war, but also of the miscalculations and illusions that surrounded its involvement, and of how South African society came to imagine and remember that great and terrible conflict.