Browsing Masters Degrees (History) by Title
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The administration of Sir Arthur E. Havelock as Governor of Natal, 1886 - 1889.
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Against the odds : a social history of African women medical doctors in South Africa, 1940s-2000s.
(2017)This thesis focuses on the lives of six women medical doctors of African ethnicity, from the 1940s to the 2000s. These women are of different generations and were all born in South Africa. They trained in South Africa and ... -
"- and my blood became hot!" : crimes of passion, crimes of reason : an analysis of the crimes against masters and mistresses by their Indian domestic servants, Natal, 1880-1920.
(2005)This thesis posits that the experiences and emotional strain associated with being a domestic servant gave rise to a culture of anger and violence within the ranks of Indian Domestic Servants in Colonial Natal during the ... -
Attitudes to history and senses of the past among grade 12 learners in a selection of schools in the Durban area, 2004 : a pilot study.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg., 2004)This study explores attitudes to school history and 'senses of the past' among a sample of Grade 12 learners in a selection of six schools in the Durban area. It traces the history of history education in South Africa ... -
Caste, class and community : the role of the South African Hindu Maha Sabha in (re)making Hinduism in South Africa, 1912-1960.
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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 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 ... -
Contexts, resistance crowds and mass mobilisation : a comparative analysis of anti-apartheid politics in Pietermaritzburg during the 1950s and the 1980s.
(1998)This thesis examines crowds and resistance politics in Pietermaritzburg, focusing particularly on the 1950s and the 1980s. These two decades were characterised by heightened anti-apartheid political activity in South Africa. ... -
Demystifying the Muslimah : changing subjectivities, civic engagement and public participation of Muslim woman in contemporary South Africa.
(2015)This study interrogates the validity of generalizations about Muslim women. While Islam is undoubtedly important in the lives of most practising Muslim women, rather than regarding their actions and behaviours as governed ... -
The development of African agriculture in Southern Rhodesia with particular reference to the interwar years.
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Divided facilities : early cottage hospitals and the provision of health care Services in Natal, 1880-1910.
(2018)This dissertation investigates the history of the introductory of the cottage hospital system in the colony of Natal. This thesis examines the history of three cottage hospitals that were erected in Natal from the late ... -
Economic rationality or religious idealism : the medieval doctrines of the just price and the prohibition of usury.
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The end of the future : the development of the South African Chemical and Biological Weapons Research Programme, 1981-1991.
(2002)This thesis is an examination of the relationship between the institutional and practical workings of the late Apartheid state's Chemical and Biological Weapons Research Programme, code-named Project Coast. It is written ... -
Exploring the migration experiences of Muslim Yao women in KwaZulu-Natal, 1994-2015.
(2016)There is very little to no research accessible on Muslim Yao women in South Africa; the available literature focuses primarily on Muslim Yao male migrants. This study critically examines the lived migration experiences of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
From "conscience politics" to the battlefields of political activism : the Liberal Party in Natal, 1953 to 1968.
(1999)This thesis examines the ways in which the Liberal Party - the Natal Division in particularattempted to become an effective political force in South Africa. The Party was fanned in May 1953 as a non-racial political ...