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Kronos, 2010 This article examines Sam Sly's African Journal (1843-51), a literary and satirical newspaper published by William Layton Sammons in Cape Town. It contends that the newspaper utilised satire to forge British cultural affinity in the colony, as well as to
Christopher Holdridge
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 23
, 2016 Editorial This special issue of BMSAES is dedicated to the recently retired papyrus conservator Bridget Leach. In tribute to a career of exceptional scope and impact, the current BMSAES issue presents recent research in Egyptology, papyrology and ...
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British Library open access policy for staff research outputs
, 2019 The Living Knowledge vision of the British Library is to make our intellectual heritage accessible to everyone, for research, inspiration and enjoyment.
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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.This article will analyze the uncertainties around collecting and classifying Hydnora africana in the first half of the nineteenth century. Emerging from the distinctive dryland ecologies of South Africa, Hydnora was interpreted as strange and cryptic by Europeans primarily because it is a root parasite—a complex floral trait that was little understood.
Katherine Arnold
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Newspaper: The Colony Herald, Volume 1, Number 3
, 1936 Third issue of The Colony Herald newspaper, published at the Dyess colony in Dyess, Arkansas. The headline announces the attendance of noted speakers to the upcoming anniversary of the colony's founding. The newspaper also contains international, state,
Williams, Oden S.; Newsom, Gene; Shaw, Helen; Dyess Colony, Inc.
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Nonhuman Mobilities and Multispecies Border Regimes in (Post‐)Colonial Southern Africa**
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.This article explores how borders in Southern Africa—such as Namibia's internal veterinary and settler border (Red Line) and national borders between Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana—functioned not only as territorial dividers but as tools to shape colonial and postcolonial multispecies hierarchies. These borders regulated human and animal movement,
Luregn Lenggenhager
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Italy’s impact on the transformation of its colony - Eritrea
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2007 Italian colonisation of Eritrea lasted from 1889 to 1941. The period of fifty two years is much shorter than French or British colonisation in other countries of Africa. Nevertheless, these fifty two years were enough to influence the fate of the future
Daria Żebrowska
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Interior Salish: British Columbia Heritage Series Series 1 Volume 3 [PDF]
, 1952 The Interior Salish were, in pre-European times, one of the largest Indian groups in British Columbia and inhabited a much larger area than their coastal namesakes.
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Fortescue': the British Museum and British Library Subject Index
, 1986 THE publication of a further fifteen volumes, covering the years 1971-5, brings to close the Subject Index of books added since 1880 to the British Museum Library and the British Library, which was begun by G. K. Fortescue and is still widely (though not
Hill, F. J.
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Crafting Colonial Companions: Zionist Botany in Palestine, 1900‐1930s**
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.In the early twentieth century, agricultural research played an important role in the Zionist movement's efforts to increase Palestine's productivity and to facilitate large‐scale Jewish settlement. Recent historiography has started to recognize the importance of agronomists and botanists as central actors in the broader project of Jewish‐Zionist ...
Mona Bieling
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