Browsing Masters Degrees (History) by Title

Ideal, reality and opposition : white women in Durban, 1900- 1920.

Noble, Kerryn. (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, ...

Identities, memories, histories and representation : the role of museums in twentieth century KwaZulu-Natal.

Dlamuka, Mxolisi Chrisostomas. (2003)

The history of museums in South Africa dates back to 1825 when the South African Museum (SAM) was established in Cape Town. Initially museums in South Africa were established for science and local history was seen as ...

The impact of the white settlers on the natural environment of Natal, 1845-1870.

Ellis, Beverley. (1998)

As no other study of settler impact on the Natal environment exists for the early colonial period, this thesis is a pioneering work. It aims to document the changes white settlers made to the natural environment of Natal ...

The incorporation of Alfred County: aspects of colonial Natal's annexation strategy and subsequent consolidation on the South-Western Frontier 1850s-18180s.

Mbhodiya, Sipho Henry. (1995)

The official and permanent British occupation of the Cape was finalised by the convention concluded in London on 13 August 1814, when Britain decided to retain the strategic Cape from the United Province!:» of the Netherlands. ...

The interaction between the missionaries of the Cape eastern frontier and the colonial authorities in the era of Sir George Grey, 1854-1861.

Weldon, Constance Gail. (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 ...

A laboratory of change : a critical study of the Durban Medical School and its community health experiment, 1930-1960.

Noble, Vanessa. (1999)

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Labour management and technological change : a history of stevedoring in Durban : 1959-1990.

Dubbeld, Bernard. (2002)

This thesis considers the history of stevedoring work and workers in Durban between 1959 and 1990. In particular I focus on the two distinct themes of "labour management" and "technological change" in order to denlonstrate ...

Labouring under the law : gender and the legal administration of Indian immigrants under indenture in colonial Natal, 1860-1907.

Sheik, Nafisa Essop. (2005)

This study is a gendered historical analysis of the legal administration of Indian Immigrants in British Colonial Natal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By focusing primarily on the attempts of the ...

Mariannhill Mission and African education, 1882-1915.

Khandlhela, Risimati Samuel. (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 ...

Marxism and history : twenty years of South African Marxist studies.

Deacon, Roger Alan. (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 ...

The mobilization of history and the Tembe chieftaincy in Maputaland, 1896-1997.

Mthethwa, Dingani. (2002)

"The Mobilization Of History And The Quest For The Tembe Chieftaincy in Maputaland: 1896-1997," is a study of conflicts emerging in post-apartheid rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Under the white rule that extended ...

Mobilization, conflict and repression: the United Democratic Front and political struggles in the Pietermaritzburg region, 1983-1991.

Bhebhe, Ngqabutho. (1996)

In the eight years of its existence, from 1983 to 1991, the United Democratic Front had a major impact on the pace and direction of political struggles in South Africa. The UDF was a loose alliance of organizations, whose ...

Moderate witness : the English language press and liberal discourse in militarized South Africa, 1976-1988 : a case study of the Natal Witness.

Manicom, Warren. (2010)

This thesis investigates the English language press and its coverage of protest struggles and backlash, border wars and related militarisation of society in the critical years of South African political change between ...