Compendium of South African History and Geography
Author: George McCall Theal
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Published: 1877
Total Pages: 324
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The Geography of South Africa
Author: Jasper Knight
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-10-03
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 3319949748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection examines contemporary directions in geographical research on South Africa. It encompasses a cross section of selected themes of critical importance not only to the discipline of Geography in South Africa, but also of relevance to other areas of the Global South. All chapters are original contributions, providing a state of the art research baseline on key themes in physical, human and environmental geography, and in understanding the changing geographical landscapes of modern South Africa. These contributions set the scene for an understanding of the relationships between modern South Africa and the wider contemporary world, including issues of sustainable development and growth in the Global South.
Compendium of the History and Geography of South Africa
Author: George McCall Theal
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Published: 1878
Total Pages: 458
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Author: George McCall Theal
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Published: 1877
Total Pages: 322
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Author: Mel Friedman
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780531168639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brief overview of the geography, wildlife, history, and people of Africa.
Washed with Sun
Author: Jeremy Foster
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2014-08-15
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0822980355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth Africa is recognized as a site of both political turmoil and natural beauty, and yet little work has been done in connecting these defining national characteristics. Washed with Sun achieves this conjunction in its multidisciplinary study of South Africa as a space at once natural and constructed. Weaving together practical, aesthetic, and ideological analyses, Jeremy Foster examines the role of landscape in forming the cultural iconographies and spatialities that shaped the imaginary geography of emerging nationhood. Looking in particular at the years following the British victory in the second Boer War, from 1902 to 1930, Foster discusses the influence of painting, writing, architecture, and photography on the construction of a shared, romanticized landscape subjectivity that was perceived as inseparable from "being South African," and thus helped forge the imagined community of white South Africa. In its innovative approach to South Africa's history, Washed with Sun breaks important new ground, combining the persuasive theory of cultural geography with the material specificity of landscape history.
Problems in the History of Modern Africa
Author: Robert O. Collins
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 302
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA presentation of important issues in the study of modern Africa. It addresses: decolonization and the end of Empire; democracy and the nation state; epidemics in Africa - the human and financial costs; development - failure or success; the African environment - origins of a crisis; and more.
Landscapes and Landforms of South Africa
Author: Stefan Grab
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-03-05
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 3319035606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a beautifully illustrated overview of the most prominent landscapes of South Africa and the distinctive landforms associated with them. It describes the processes, origins and the environmental significance of those landscapes, including their relationships to human activity of the past and present. The sites described in this book include, amongst others, the Blyde River Canyon, Augrabies Falls, Kruger National Park, Kalahari desert landscapes, the Great Escarpment, Sterkfontein caves and karst system, Table Mountain, Cape winelands, coastal dunes, rocky coasts, Boer War battlefield sites, and Vredefort impact structure. Landscapes and Landforms of South Africa provides a new perspective on South Africa’s scenic landscapes by considering their diversity, long and short term histories, and importance for geoconservation and geotourism. This book will be relevant to those interested in the geology, physical geography and history of South Africa, climate change and landscape tourism.
African History: A Very Short Introduction
Author: John Parker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2007-03-22
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0192802488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.
The Origin and Growth of Geography as a discipline at South Africa Universities
Author: Gustav Visser
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Published: 2016-09-20
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1928357261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe publication provides the first comprehensive text that reflects on a century of the development of geography as an academic discipline at South African universities. The book showcases a broad and textured review of South Africa's geography departments, their staff members, their times, and the different Geographies they engaged in. The book lays thefoundation from which more expansive individual departmental histories can be written in the future.
