Filter by
Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913
In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913, Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The precision of surveyors and other colonial technicians lent these enterprises an illusion of irreproachable objecti…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-90-04-27233-0
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- African Social Studies Series, Volume: 33
- Call Number
- -
Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700 …
This book takes a long-run view of the global maritime trade of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia from 1700 to American Independence in 1776. Land argues that the three cities developed large, global networks of maritime commerce and exchange that created tension between merchants and the British Empire which sought to enforce mercantilist policies to constrain American trade to within the Bri…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-90-04-54269-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Library of Economic History, Volume: 18
- Call Number
- -
Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel Writing (1620-1722)
This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by proposing theoretical linkages to contemporary Caribbean theories of creolization and archipelagic thinking. Using Édouard Glissant’s notion of points o…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-23356-2
- Collation
- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
- Call Number
- 379
Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance
This open access book charts how South Africa’s gold mines have systematically suppressed evidence of hazardous work practices and the risks associated with mining. For most of the twentieth century, South Africa was the world’s largest producer of gold. Although the country enjoyed a reputation for leading the world in occupational health legislation, the mining companies developed a syste…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-19-8327-6
- Collation
- XIII, 459
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Microhistories of Technology
In this open access book, Mikael Hård tells a story of how people around the world challenged the production techniques and products brought by globalization. Retaining their autonomy and freedom, creative individuals selectively adopted or rejected modern gadgets, tools, and machines. In standard historical narratives, globalization is portrayed as an unstoppable force that flattens all obsta…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-22813-1
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
- Call Number
- XX, 290
Cyborgs in Latin America
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org . Cyborgs in Latin America explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity.
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-0-230-10977-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- XI, 212
The Ndebele, Frank Oates, and Knowledge Production in the 1870s
This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge changes in the politics and economics of a continent, on the cusp of almost complete colonization at the hands of European pow…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-75964-2
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
- Call Number
- IX, 125
Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914
This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who practised on the Gold Coast and in Cameroon from 1885 to 1914, the author demonstrates how notions of …
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-27130-4
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
- Call Number
- XVIII, 454
Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914
This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who practised on the Gold Coast and in Cameroon from 1885 to 1914, the author demonstrates how notions of …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-27128-1
- Collation
- XVIII, 454
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Ethnomusicology, Queerness, Masculinity
This open access book explores the disciplinary, disciplined, and recent interdisciplinary sites and productions of ethnomusicology and queerness, arguing that both academic realms are founded upon a destructive masculinity—indissolubly linked to coloniality and epistemic hegemony—and marked by a monologic, ethnocentric silencing of embodied, same-sex desire. Ethnomusicology’s fetishizati…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-15313-6
- Collation
- X, 240
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography