Browsing Masters Degrees (History) by Issue Date
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The opposition to General J.B.M. Hertzog's segregation bills, 1925- 1936 : a study in extra-parliamentary protest.
(1978)No abstract available. -
The development of African agriculture in Southern Rhodesia with particular reference to the interwar years.
(1979)No abstract available. -
The administration of Sir Arthur E. Havelock as Governor of Natal, 1886 - 1889.
(1979)No abstract available. -
Frederick Robert Moor and native affairs in the colony of Natal, 1893 to 1903.
(1980)This dissertation is concerned with the public life of Frederick Robert Moor during the period 1893 to 1903. Moor served as Secretary for Native Affairs during the first ten years of responsible government in Natal in the ... -
Economic rationality or religious idealism : the medieval doctrines of the just price and the prohibition of usury.
(1982)No abstract available. -
Class, race and gender : the political economy of women in colonial Natal.
(1982)Colonial Natal has become an increasingly popular field of investigation for historians of Southern Africa over the last decade or so. This trend is not premature or " irrelevant for, although not demonstrating" the economic ... -
The interaction between the missionaries of the Cape eastern frontier and the colonial authorities in the era of Sir George Grey, 1854-1861.
(1984)In the work of radical historians and in Xhosa tradition the Cattle Killing has become the supreme example of the deliberately destructive impact of a colonial governor, helped by missionaries, on the Black peoples of the ... -
Financing colonial rule : the hut tax system in Natal, 1847-1898.
(1985)The functioning of African societies in the colonial environment has become a popular subject of research by historians. However, these are areas of neglect insofar as the investigation of the economic role of Africans in ... -
Marxism and history : twenty years of South African Marxist studies.
(1988)This thesis attempts to contextualize the emergence and development of South African Marxist studies in terms of political and economic changes in South Africa, the influence of overseas Marxist and related theories and ... -
From mission school to Bantu education : a history of Adams College.
(1990)In 1835 the first American Board missionaries arrived in South Africa and a mission station was built at Amanzimtoti. Adams College, then known as Amanzimtoti Institute was established in 1853 by the American Board with ... -
Natal's "Native" education, 1917-1953 : education for segregation.
(1990)The Natal Education Department's "Native" education system which functioned from 1910 to 1953 has often been termed a good example of "liberal" education for Africans. However an investigation into the administrative ... -
Ideal, reality and opposition : white women in Durban, 1900- 1920.
(1991)In 1900 Durban's white' society closely resembled its British counterpart. As in Britain an ideal of womanhood encompassed various generalisations concerning woman's true nature and purpose. Women were upheld as pure, ... -
The Colonial-Born and Settlers' Indian Association and Natal Indian politics, 1933-1939.
(1992)This thesis seeks to examine Indian political development in South Africa during the period 1933-1939, with specific reference to the emergence of the Colonial-Born and Settlers' Indian Association and its influence on ... -
Mariannhill Mission and African education, 1882-1915.
(1993)In 1880 a group of 31 Trappist monks arrived in South Africa for the first time. Two years later they founded the now famous Mariannhill mission in the vicinity of Pinetown, west of Durban. The purpose of this thesis ... -
Forced removals in Northern Natal: a comparative study of the Steincoalspruit and Roosboom communities in historical perspective.
(1993)Abstract available in PDF.