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Falling Monuments Reluctant Ruins
Author | : Hilton Judin,Faeeza Ballim,Nnamdi Elleh,Sally Gaule,Kelly Gillespie,Ali Khangela Hlongwane,Tara Weber,Eric Itzkin,Arianna Lissoni,Roshan Dadoo,Yasmin Mayat,Brendan Hart,Temba Middelmann,Barbara Morovich,Pauline Guinard,Muchaparara Musemwa,Goolam Vahed |
Publsiher | : Wits University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781776146673 |
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This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa’s oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in which the past persists into the present
Falling Monuments Reluctant Ruins
Author | : Hilton Judin,Faeeza Ballim,Nnamdi Elleh,Sally Gaule,Kelly Gillespie,Ali Khangela Hlongwane,Tara Weber,Eric Itzkin,Arianna Lissoni,Roshan Dadoo,Yasmin Mayat,Brendan Hart,Temba Middelmann,Barbara Morovich,Pauline Guinard,Muchaparara Musemwa,Goolam Vahed |
Publsiher | : Wits University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781776146680 |
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This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa’s oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in which the past persists into the present
Monuments and Memory in Africa
Author | : John Sodiq Sanni,Madalitso Zililo Phiri |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2024-03-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781003858393 |
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This book investigates how monuments have been used in Africa as tools of oppression and dominance, from the colonial period up to the present day. The book asks what the decolonisation of historical monuments and geographies might entail and how this could contribute to the creation of a post-imperial world. In recent times, African movements to overthrow the symbols and monuments of the colonial era have gathered pace as a means of renaming, reclassifying, and reimagining colonial identities and spaces. Movements such as #RhodesMustFall in South Africa have sprung up around the world, connected by a history of Black life struggles, erasures, oppression, suppression, and the depression of Black biopolitics. This book provides an important multidisciplinary intervention in the discourse on monuments and memories, asking what they are, what they have been used to represent, and ultimately what they can reveal about past and present forms of pain and oppression. Drawing on insights from philosophy, historical sociology, politics, museum, and literary studies, this book will be of interest to a range of scholars with an interest in the decolonisation of global African history.
Architecture State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital
Author | : Hilton Judin |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2021-04-08 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781000367119 |
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This book is the first comprehensive investigation of the architecture of the apartheid state in the period of rapid economic growth and political repression from 1957 to 1966 when buildings took on an ideological role that was never remote from the increasingly dominant administrative, legislative and policing mechanisms of the regime. It considers how this process reflected the usurpation of a regional modernism and looks to contribute to wider discourses on international postwar modernism in architecture. Buildings in Pretoria that came to embody ambitions of the apartheid state for industrialisation and progress serve as case studies. These were widely acclaimed projects that embodied for apartheid officials the pursuit of modernisation but carried latent apprehensions of Afrikaners about their growing economic prospects and cultural estrangement in Africa. It is a less known and marginal story due to the dearth of material and documents buried in archives and untranslated documents. Many of the documents, drawings and photographs in the book are unpublished and include classified material and photographs from the National Nuclear Research Centre, negatives of 1960s from Pretoria News and documents and pamphlets from Afrikaner Broederbond archives. State architecture became the most iconic public manifestation of an evolving expression of white cultural identity as a new generation of architects in Pretoria took up the challenge of finding form to their prospects and beliefs. It was an opportunistic faith in Afrikaners who urgently needed to entrench their vulnerable and contested position on the African continent. The shift from provincial town to apartheid capital was swift and relentless. Little was left to stand in the way of the ambitions and aim of the state as people were uprooted and forcibly relocated, structures torn down and block upon block of administration towers and slabs erected across Pretoria. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of architectural history as well as those with an interest in postcolonial studies, political science and social anthropology.
History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire
Author | : Edward Gibbon |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1346 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BSB:BSB11308523 |
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The Missionary s Wife
Author | : Tim Jeal |
Publsiher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2013-11-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780571311767 |
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In The Missionary's Wife (1996) - his return to historical fiction - Tim Jeal expertly evoked Africa in the 1890s: a continent in turmoil as a horde of prospecters, hunters and missionaries scramble after gold, ivory, and converts. Young Englishwoman Clara Musson, though, travels with a different purpose. Jilted in love, doubting her Christian faith, she hoped to find renewed meaning as the wife of charismatic missionary Robert Haslam. What she finds is an obsessive zeal that will provoke a civil war. 'A powerful love story fleshed out with vivid historical detail, narrative tension and subtle post-colonial awareness... remarkably engaging and skilfully told.' Guardian 'Jeal brilliantly evokes the sights and sounds and smells of 1890s Africa.' Sunday Times 'Brilliantly plotted... a book of deep moral intelligence.' Lynn Barber, Literary Review 'Gripping... moving and convincing.' Allan Massie, Scotsman
A Glimpse at Guatemala and Some Notes on the Ancient Monuments of Central America
Author | : Anne Cary Morris Maudslay,Alfred Percival Maudslay |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Central America |
ISBN | : UCBK:B000921609 |
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Our County and Its People
Author | : Edgar C. Emerson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1332 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Erie County (N.Y.) |
ISBN | : YALE:39002015009328 |
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