A Social History of the University Presses in Apartheid South Africa
A Social History of the University Presses in Apartheid South Africa

Author: Elizabeth Le Roux

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-10-14

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 9004293485

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In A History of the University Presses in Apartheid South Africa, Elizabeth le Roux examines scholarly publishing history, academic freedom and knowledge production during the apartheid era. Using archival materials, comprehensive bibliographies, and political sociology theory, this work analyses the origins, publishing lists and philosophies of the university presses. The university presses are often associated with anti-apartheid publishing and the promotion of academic freedom, but this work reveals both greater complicity and complexity. Elizabeth le Roux demonstrates that the university presses cannot be considered oppositional – because they did not resist censorship and because they operated within the constraints of the higher education system – but their publishing strategies became more liberal over time.

The Whig Party, 1807 - 1812
The Whig Party, 1807 - 1812

Author: Michael Roberts

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0429620586

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Published in 1965: This book is about the Period in which the Whig Party was in power between 1807 - 1812. It talks about Economics, Parliamentary reforms and wars.

From Boys to Gentlemen
From Boys to Gentlemen

Author: Robert Morrell

Publisher: Unisa Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Awarded the Hiddingh-Currie Award for academic excellence. The book is the first on South African history to focus on the concept of masculinity; it examines how the forces of race and class were expressed in gendered ways from a century ago in South Africa. Its central concern is how white men established their dominance and constructed their masculinity, cataloguing and exploring the significance of the political and public dominance of white men. It argues that a particular type of settler masculinity was constructed and became dominant as a prescription for proper male behaviour; and shows how it excluded and silenced rival interpretations, and promoted the development of a closed and racially exclusive colonial society. The study concentrates on the white settler population around Pietermaritzburg, the capital of the then colony of Natal.

The Role of the Poet in Early Societies
The Role of the Poet in Early Societies

Author: Morton Wilfred Bloomfield

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9780859912792

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Bloomfield and Dunn describe the varying roles which "poets" have historically filled within society, whether ancient, medieval, or pre-modern and identify the key functions of the poet figure. He (or sometimes she) supports the ruler and is in turn rewarded for a central service to the tribe; he exercises his authority by an apparently magical understanding of the past, present, and future; and, whenever called upon to perform an official rite, he knows how to wield the appropriate traditional, esoteric utterances. In order to illustrate the ways in which this kind of poetic function can be seen to have been exercised in early Irish literature, pre-modern Scottish Gaelic, early Welsh, early Norse and Old English the authors draw on a wide-range of texts. The study concludes with an examination of the implications of their findings for twentieth century readers exploring the utterances of poets remote from them in time or space.