Browsing Doctoral Degrees (History) by Title
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The idea of a hermeneutic of history.
(1982)Constantly confronted by history, man has what may be termed a natural impulse to make sense of the past. And indeed, the past cannot be understood without also understanding the present. Thus that fundamental historical ... -
The levying of forced African labour and military service by the colonial state of Natal.
(1995)Abstract available in pdf file. -
No easy walk : building diplomacy in the history of the relationship between the African National Congress of South Africa and the United States of America, 1945-1987.
(2008)This dissertation examines the attempts of the African National Congress -
Our victory was our defeat : race, gender and liberalism in the union defence force, 1939-1945.
(2006)The Second World War marked the point at which South Africa stood at a crossroads between the segregation which came before it and apartheid that came after. Over the past twenty years social historians have placed greater ... -
The question of 'Indian penetration' in the Durban area and Indian politics, 1940-1946.
(1983)No abstract available. -
A severed umbilicus : infanticide and the concealment of birth in Natal, 1860-1935.
(2011)This dissertation is an historical examination of the crimes of infanticide and the concealment of birth in Natal between 1860 and 1935, where more than thirty such cases were tried before the Supreme, Magistrate, and ... -
Society, economy and criminal activity in colonial Natal, 1860-1893.
(1993)No abstract available. -
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies and politics, 1930-1978.
(1995)The pivot around which the controversy over the Board's political policy revolved was the question whether a collective Jewish attitude towards the government's racial policies should be formulated, or whether this was the ... -
The South African parliamentary opposition, 1948-1953.
(1989)The primary focus of the thesis is the attempt by the United Party, between 1948 and 1953, to regain political power. It argues that although policy issues were important, insufficient attention has thus far been paid ... -
States of mind : mental illness and the quest for mental health in Natal and Zululand, 1868-1918.
(2004)In KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, many of those who search for solace from mental illness draw on one or more of the three vigorous therapeutic traditions of healing to which the region is heir. Western psychiatry and its ... -
The transfrontiersman : the career of John Dunn in Natal and Zululand 1834-1895.
(1980)No abstract available. -
White farmers, social institutions and settler masculinity in the Natal Midlands, 1880-1920.
(1996)The midlands was the first area occupied and farmed by white settlers. It became the agricultural heartland of colonial Natal. Its farmers became politically and economically powerful. Their success rested on the construction ... -
The years of red dust : aspects of the effects of the great depression on Natal, 1929-1933.
(1994)The Great Depression has received relatively little attention from South African historians and economists. Most studies of the period concentrate almost exclusively on political aspects, and ignore the economic realities. ... -
The Zulu royal family under the South African Government, 1910- 1933 : Solomon kaDinuzulu, Inkatha and Zulu nationalism.
(1985)No abstract available.