Browsing Masters Degrees (History) by Title
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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 ... -
From both sides of the bed : a history of doctor and patient AIDS activism in South Africa, 1982-1984.
(2004)This thesis explores the history of AIDS activism 'from both sides of the bed', by doctors and gay patients, in the 1980s and early 1990s. Such AIDS activism was formed in opposition to dominant racist and homophobic framings ... -
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 ... -
A historical overview of the origins of anti-shark measures in Natal, 1940-1980.
(2006)This thesis studies the origins of anti-shark measures in Natal, highlighting the relationship between beach recreation, anti-shark measures and the important influence of human perceptions of sharks. It focuses on key ... -
A history of the professionalisation of human resource management in South Africa : 1945-1995.
(2004)Human resource management as practiced today within organisations carries a century of history. Focus has shifted from its simple origins as a welfare concern for the lot of workers by certain enlightened employers in Great ... -
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, ... -
Identities, memories, histories and representation : the role of museums in twentieth century KwaZulu-Natal.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
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Labour management and technological change : a history of stevedoring in Durban : 1959-1990.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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 ...